Shows - List of Ballet, Opera and Show in St.Petersburg with Descriptions

Music by Boris Asafiev Libretto by Nikolai Volkov based on the poem by Alexander Pushkin

Opera buffa in two acts. Music by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Rodion ShchedrinFeaturing Pelageya Kurennaya, Petr Sokolov, Daria Rositskaya, Alexander Mikhailov

Music by Herman von Lovenskjøld Libretto by Adolphe Nourrit Choreography by August Bournonville in the reduction of Elsa Marianne von Rosen

Opera in three acts and six scenes. Music by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Arrigo Boito after Shakespeare´s plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV

Swan Lake is a ballet that has become has become a symbol of Russian art itself. The version of the famous ballet cannot be seen anywhere else in Moscow or St. Petersburg: the Mikhailovsky Theatre’s Swan Lake is the legendary ’Old Moscow’ production by Alexander Gorsky and Asaf Messerer.

Opera in four acts. Music by Georges Bizet. Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy after the novel by Prosper Mérimée

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (with prologue The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga)Featuring Yekaterina Goncharova, Oleg Videman, Stanislav Trofimov, Mikhail Kit

Music by Igor Stravinsky
Libretto by Igor Stravinsky and Stepan Mitussov, after the story The Emperor´s Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen

Ballet in two acts Music by Sergey Prokofiev Nacho Duato has staged his own version of the celebrated ballet Romeo and Juliet because he is convinced that „Sergey Prokofiev’s score is the most amazing thing that has ever been created for the ballet stage“.

One-act ballets. Music by Georges Bizet – Rodion Shchedrin Choreography by Alberto Alonso

opera by Gaetano Donizetti Performed in ItalianConductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Giovanni Ruffini

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, after the comedy by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

opera by Giuseppe VerdiFeaturing Plácido Domingo, Sergei Skorokhodov, Mikhail Petrenko, Tatiana Serjan, Ekaterina SemenchukConductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Temistocle Solera

Opera scenes in three acts after the poem by N.V. Gogol. Music by Rodion Shchedrin. Libretto by the composer

Lyric scenes in three acts Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Libretto by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Konstantin Shilovsky after the novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin Musical Director of the production and Сonductor: Vasily Petrenko

A fabled fantasy ballet in three acts and four scenes with music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. Libretto by Vladimir Begichey and Vasily Geltzer.

Music by Farid Yarullin Libretto by Ahmed Faizi and Leonid Yakobson after motifs from Tatar folk tales Choreography by Leonid Yakobson (1950)

Lyric opera in three acts. Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Libretto by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Konstantin Shilovsky after the poetic novel of the same name by Alexander Pushkin

Ballet in three acts and a prologue Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky The Mikhailovsky Theatre has received an absolutely new production of the classical Sleeping Beauty. The renowned Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato has told the famous fairytale in his own way, preserving the incredibly romantic and magical spirit of this famous ballet.

Opera in four acts (new stage version of the 2007 production). Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Arrigo Boito, after William Shakespeare´s tragedy Othello, or The Moor of Venice

Music by Ludwig Minkus Choreography by Marius Petipa

opera in four actsmusic by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart production by Vyacheslav Starodubtsev Conductor — Philipp Selivanov

Ballet in three acts and a prologue. Music by Ludwig Minkus. Libretto: Marius Petipa. Choreography by Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky