On 25 July the Teatro Degollado (Guadalajara, Mexico) hosted the prize-giving ceremony for the XXIV Operalia international opera singers’ competition. Soloist Elena Stikhina (soprano) of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre was presented with the Audience Award and the special CulturArte Prize
On 28 July at 18.00 on the eve of the I International Mariinsky Far East Festival the Mariinsky Theatre will be appearing in Yakutsk at the State Sivtsev – Suorun Omolloon Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
On 24 July at 19:00 the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre will host the world premiere of Leonid Klinichev's opera The Cossacks performed by soloists and the chorus of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. The Mariinsky Orchestra will be conducted by Zaurbek Gugkaev
From 21 to 25 July Valery Gergiev will run a series of concerts with the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America in The Netherlands, France, Denmark and the Czech Republic
Valery Gergiev and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra have announced the founding of the new recording label MPHIL. The first release featuring recordings of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony and Anton Bruckner's Fourth Symphony (Romantic) will come on 30 September 2016
On 18 July Valery Gergiev will be conducting the Munich Philharmonic as part of the prestigious BBC Proms music festival (London). This year marks two decades since Valery Gergiev’s first appearance at this festival
On 4 and 5 October the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev will give three performances at the Samara Opera and Ballet Theatre as part of the IX International Music Festival To Mstislav Rostropovich
From 6 to 23 July Valery Gergiev will be performing in Germany, where he will conduct the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Russian-German Academy of Music
On 11 July following a performance of the ballet Giselle at the historic Mariirsky Theatre, in the White Foyer the ballerina will be holding an autograph session. Diana Vishneva will be signing the Mariinsky label's DVD recording of the ballet Romeo and Juliet. The disc is available at Mariinsky Theatre souvenir kiosks
In 2016 the Mariinsky Theatre is widely celebrating one hundred and twenty-five years since the birth of Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev. On 4 and 17 July at the Mariinsky-II during the XXIV Stars of the White Nights music festival there will be premiere performances of one-act ballets to music by Sergei Prokofiev