Highlights of the opera season include a new production of Mozart's Die Zauberfl‹te (The Magic Flute) by British director Graham Vick, marking the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, and a staging of Prokofiev's War and Peace by Boris Pokrovsky, founder of Moscow's Chamber Opera Theater.

The Bolshoi Ballet will present a new production of Prokofiev's Cinderella by choreographer Yuri Posokhov and a five-day festival celebrating the birthday of ballerina Yuri Posokhov. The company will tour South Korea in October, the U.K. in March and April 2006, and Japan in May.