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

Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Libretto by Marius Petipa based on the story by E.T.A. Hoffmann

operetta by Johann Strauss IIFeaturing Sergei Semishkur, Antonina Vesenina, Denis Zakirov, Vladislav Kupriyanov, Yekaterina SergeyevaConductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Johann Strauss II
Libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée after a farce Das Gefängnis (The Prison) by Julius Roderich Benedix and vaudeville Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Russian text by Nikolai Erdman and Mikhail Volpin

ballet in three actsmusic by Rodion Shchedrin choreography by Alexander Radunsky staging by Mikhail Messerer Ivan — Nikita TchetverikovTsar Maiden — Ekaterina Borchenko     debutHumpbacked Horse — Sabina Yapparova     debut Conductor — Pavel Sorokin

A Ballet fairy tale in two acts with an Epilogue. Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Libretto: Marius Petipa based on the story by E. T. A. Hoffmann

Russian Circus show in two acts Director Askold Zapashniy

opera by Giacomo Puccini

Conductor: Valery Gergiev

The most lyrical Verdi’s work is La traviata, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils The Lady of the Camellias. The title La traviata means literally The Fallen Woman, or perhaps more figuratively, The Woman Who Goes Astray.

opera by Gaetano Donizetti Performed in ItalianConductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Giovanni Ruffini

opera by Jacques OffenbachConductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Jacques Offenbach
Libretto by Jules Barbier after the play by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after works by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

opera by Giacomo Puccini

Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Guiseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after Henri Murger´s Scènes de la vie de Bohème

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.

A Ballet fairy tale in two acts with an Epilogue. Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Libretto: Marius Petipa based on the story by E. T. A. Hoffmann

Fantastic ballet in three acts, four scenes. Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky, after the novel by Alexander Pushkin

Dramma lirico in a prologue and three acts. Music by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Temistocle Solera after Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner’s tragedy Attila, König der Hunnen, revised by Francesco Maria Piave

Opera in four acts Music by Giacomo Puccini There are few productions in the world of opera that could compete with this lyrical drama. It is not pretentious, convoluted or emotional — here, the art of opera and the real world collide.

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte

Ballet in three acts with a prologue and epilogue. Music by Adolphe Adan, Cesare Pugni, Léo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo and Pyotr Oldenburgsky. Libretto by Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Joseph Mazilier, edited by Yuri Slonimsky and Pyotr Gusev

ballet in two actsmusic by Aram Khachaturian choreography by George Kovtun

opera by Gioachino RossiniFeaturing Ildar Abdrazakov Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Angelo Anelli

One-act ballet. This sweet ballet, staged in 1903 by the brothers Sergei and Nikolai Legat as an attraction of varied solos by ballet stars that followed one after another

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

opera in three acts Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano after Sir Walter Scott´s novel The Bride of Lammermoor

Ballet in three acts (thirteen scenes) Music by Sergei Prokofiev Libretto by Andrian Piotrovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Radlov and Leonid Lavrovsky, based on the tragedy by William Shakespeare