The Mariinsky Ballet returns to the Royal Opera House with the Mariinsky Orchestra for another exciting three-week season of spectacular ballets presented by Victor Hochhauser. The Mariinsky Ballet opens its London season with the company’s sparkling production of Petipa and Gorsky’s exuberant classic, Don Quixote, and is ending with Petipa’s lavish melodrama of love, betrayal and ultimate redemption, La Bayadère. Other shows: Swan Lake, Anna Karenina, ‘Contrasts’: Carmen Suite, Infra, Paquita Grand Pas and La Bayadère.