In 2014 and 2015, the Mariinsky Theatre invited Agudin to conduct performances of Charles Gounod’s Faust, in the sensitive production directed by Isabella Bywater, and featuring great soloists Mikhail Vekua, Alex Markov, Mischa Petrenko, Yuliya Matochkina, Ekaterina Goncharova, Irina Churilova and Sergei Aleksashkin.
