The world-known Mariinsky Theatre has a concert hall located in half a mile from the main building. There is going to be the world's first live television broadcast of the ballet in three-dimensional image staged in the concert hall. The director of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev is going to lead the orchestra. European and Russian viewers for the first time in history will be able to watch live 3D image of ballet performances. The program of the gala concert, broadcast in a format 3D, are fragments of the most famous ballets of the Mariinsky Theatre performed by international star dancers - Uliana Lopatkina, Irma Nioradze , Victoria Tereshkina, Alina Luba, Igor Zelensky, Leonid Sarafanov, Vladimir Shklyarov, Anastasia and Denis Matvienko. Former Bolshoi theatre prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya was invited to view the concert and open it.

St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre plans organizing the world's first 3D televised transmission of a ballet performance on April 15.

It is still unclear how many people will be able to watch the 3D ballet performance organized by the Mariinsky Theatre, as first sales of 3D TV sets in Russia are estimated to begin only in April.

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