The Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra from St. Petersburg, Russia, returned to Segerstrom Concert Hall on Thursday night to launch the 58th season of the Philharmonic Society of Orange County with ...

You may not be able to put it into words, but you know it when you hear it: the sound of the Mariinsky Orchestra is like no other. When the great Russian ensemble began its magnificent all-Tchaikovsky ...

The indefatigable conductor Valery Gergiev is leading his Mariinsky Theater Orchestra on a US tour this month, centered on a series of performances celebrating the 120th anniversary of the opening of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Tchaikovsky’s Second Symphony begins with a solo horn playing eight bars ...

Sometimes an orchestra is a group of about seven or eight dozen instrumentalists. And sometimes it is a single living, breathing organism of overwhelming artistic purpose, united by the hand of a ...

No dance company can make a stronger claim of ownership to a ballet than the Mariinsky does to “Swan Lake.” Russia’s celebrated ensemble, known from its founding in the 1740s until the country’s 1917 ...

When conductor Valery Gergiev became chairman of the International Tchaikovsky Competition last year he promised to clean house, ridding it of corruption and favoritism while repackaging it for a 21st ...

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Enlisting the drama of Prokofiev and the elegance of Tchaikovsky, St Petersburg's new Mariinsky theatre staged a gala opening on Thursday designed to silence critics ...

The Tchaikovsky Experience on the BBC launches in January 2007 with a two-part drama documentary presented by Charles Hazlewood and starring Ed Stoppard as the composer on BBC Two. The films are shot ...