The Mariinsky Opera's current tour schedule is nothing if not punishing. Their performance of Verdi's Requiem, their fourth concert in five days, was preceded by two of Wagner's Parsifal and one of ...

A fifth anniversary is generally not something to get overexcited about. But if you can get Bryn Terfel, Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre to join in the celebrations, then that's reason enough ...

AT THE heart of a gruelling week-long UK tour, Valery Gergiev and his Mariinsky Opera presented Barbican audiences with a fascinating juxtaposition: Parsifal, Wagner’s final opera and the most ...

The Mariinsky Theatre officially opened the doors to Mariinsky II, its new state-of-the-art opera house in St Petersburg on May 2. The company, led by artistic and general director Valery Gergiev, ...

John Fraser on the drama behind Canadian architect Jack Diamond’s St. Petersburg masterpiece Watching the Toronto architect Jack Diamond deal with the final details of his remarkable new opera ...

The Mariinsky Theatre, one of the largest and most acclaimed performing arts institutions in the world, under the leadership of Artistic and General Director Valery Gergiev, today announced that its ...

PARIS — Valery Gergiev, the mercurial and majestic Russian conductor, is normally a man in a great hurry. But on a recent evening, on the fringes of the annual get-together of the world’s business ...

The centrepiece of this Opera Gala was obviously the chance to hear Bryn Terfel sing Act 3 of Die Walküre on his home turf. But before we progressed to the main course there was a series of starters ...