FULL PLAYBILL

Highlights of the Mariinsky Theatre’s autumn programme include a double bill of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. Le Corsaire, Giselle, The Nutcracker and Daphnis et Chloé are also on the Nov playbill (mariinsky.ru).

St Peteresburg travel advice: telegraph. co.uk/tt-stpetersburg

Lisbon travel advice: telegraph.co.uk/ tt-lisbon