In 2024, a large-scale festival dedicated to the musical heritage of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and to the 180th anniversary of the composer’s birth will be held. The central events of the festival of gratitude, which will last throughout the theatre season, will be exchange tours of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theatres, as well as a joint performance of the country's two main theatres in Rimsky-Korsakov's home town of Tikhvin.