Over a dozen top opera stars will perform solo concerts. Among them are the most celebrated and acclaimed sopranos in the world: Maria Guleghina, Violetta Urmana, and Anna Netrebko; famous opera bass, Rene Papet; bass-baritone opera and concert singer Bryn Terfel; hunky baritone Dmitry Hvorostovsky, tenor Vladimir Galuzin, the leading dramatic mezzo soprano of the Mariinsky Theatre, Olga Borodina, and the sensational bass Ildar Abdrazakov.

Mariinsky theatre’s prima ballerina Diana Vishneva and the Bolshoi prima Svetlana Zakharova, along with celebrated ballet dancers Ulyana Lopatkina and Leonid Sarafanov, will also perform solos.

Further, venerable instrumentalists will perform concerts, including violinist Leonidas Kavakos, pianists Yefim Bronfman, Rudolf Buchbinder, Lang Lang, and Denis Matsuev.

Among visitors to the festival will be outstanding German bands and orchestras, the Finnish National Opera and National Ballet of Spain.

Through 16 years of its history, the Festival always surpassed each previous year’s program, presenting the finest opera and ballet productions, great symphonic works, masterpieces of chamber music and premieres of new works.

This year’s “Stars of the White Nights” at the Mariinsky Theatre and the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre will last through July 19, offering 60 days of stunning performances.