On May 22 the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall hosted the first concert of the 17th International Musical Olympus Festival. Accompanied by the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra were such participants of the Festival as Ayyub Guliev (conductor, Azerbaijan), Kristóf Baráti (violin, Hungary), Alexander Schimpf (piano, Germany) and Daniela Köhler (soprano, Germany). The evening opened with the ‘Viva, Olympus!’ overture by the Russian composer Andrei Petrov, specially composed for the festival. Artists also performed the works by Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Beethoven, and Strauss.