Mariinsky Theatre

A look at the rich history of the Mariinsky Theatre in the birth and growth of the Russian tradition in opera, music and ballet.

Ballet Mariinsky Joias

Boris Godunov: Mariinsky Theatre

Libretto by the composer after the eponymous tragedy by Alexander Pushkin and Nikolai Karamzin’s History of the Russian State. Performed at Mariinsky Theatre in 2012

Raymonda - Mariinsky Theatre

Here there is a ballet and detective plot including dreams, kidnappings and joyous releases, a complex and varied ballerina role and a conflict between the male roles – the refined and classical Jean de Brienne and the p

Jewels - Mariinsky Ballet

George Balanchine's abstract ballet danced to existing pieces of music by composers Faure, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky. Each section represents a different jewel: Emerald, Ruby and Diamond.

Anna Karenina - Mariinsky Ballet

Anna Karenina is the tragic story of a married aristocrat/socialite and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother’s unbridled womanizi

Giselle (Mariinsky Theatre)

It is a story in which the young heroine, dying from a broken heart, mysteriously hears the call of ghosts tempting her to join their round dance, and having become one of them she saves the lover who betrayed her.

Don Quixote - Mariinsky Theatre

Despite its name, the ballet is not an adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ novel. Only one episode of the ingenious hidalgo’s many adventures serves as the basis for the story and the dancing scenes. It is a story about t

Sacred Stage: The Mariinsky Theater

Set against the backdrop of the magical White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, SACRED STAGE explores what the Mariinsky Theater has meant to Russian and Soviet culture and how it has somehow maintained its artistic exc

The Mariinsky II Opening Gala

Valery Gergiev (Gala Mariinsky II)

Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker: Mariinsky Theatre

Internationally celebrated avant-garde artist Mikhail Shemyakin offers up his darker vision of "The Nutcracker" in this production filmed live at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the site of the first performance

Jewels In Mariinsky Theatre

Ballet Mariinsky O Quebra Nozes

Romeo and Juliet - Mariinsky Theatre

One of history's most enduring love stories. Many people believe that Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet is the greatest ballet score ever written. The Mariinsky Ballet shows at its dramatic finest passionate choreography for

Mariinsky Ballet's Scheherazade

The bored Shahriyar is being entertained by odalisques and his favourite wife Zobeide. At the advice of his younger brother Shahzeman, who is convinced of Zobeide’s unfaithfulness, Shahriyar departs to go hunting. An org

Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre

A spectacular special event edition of Swan Lake in 3-D starring Ekaterina Kondaurova and Natalia Vodianova, model, actress, and storyteller, was recorded and broadcast live from the historic Mariinsky Theatre St. Peters

Dmitri Shostakovich - Complete Symphonies & Concertos (Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra)

Nobody is better suited to undertake such a challenge than Valery Gergiev and his Mariinsky Orchestra. Over a period of a year all 15 Symphonies and 6 Concertos have been recorded at Salle Pleyel in Paris. What an advent

New Year’s Eve at the Mariinsky

A truly remarkable New Year’s Eve in St Petersburg’s fabled Mariinsky Theatre, with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky (ex-Kirov) Ballet. It was at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg that the ballet The Sleeping Beaut

Pyotr Tchaikovsky Ballet 'Swan Lake' 2007 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg

The classic Mariinsky (Kirov) production of the greatest of all ballets. Filmed in the imperial splendor of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg. Starring Ulyana Lopatkina, Danila Korsuntsev and the breathtaking Mariinsk

Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4 - Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Theater Orchestra

Valery Gergiev starts recording Tchaikovsky's symphonies with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra. Tchaikovsky composes the Fifth ten years after the Fourth. He spends five years afterwards composing the last work of this sy