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

Opera in four acts. 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.

ballet by Leo Delibes

Music by Leo Delibes

Ballet in two acts Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Nacho Duato has given ballet lovers a new production of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The most ‘Christmassy’ of all classical ballets, The Nutcracker has become a symbol of magical transformation and the constant renewal of life.

opera by Gioachino Rossini

Music by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti

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

Ballets by Michel Fokine. Music by Robert Schumann

Opera in four acts. Music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Libretto by Vladimir Belsky, after a Russian legend

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

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.

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

Ballet in three acts (six scenes), based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. Music by Ludwig Minkus, Libretto by Marius Petipa based on the novel by Miguel de Cervantes, Choreography by Alexander Gorsky after Marius Petipa

Ballet for children in two acts Music by Karen Khachaturian The fairy-tale story by Italian author Gianni Rodari tells of the adventures of the Little Onion boy (in Italian, Cipollino), who fights the unjust treatment of his fellow vegetable folk (his little girlfriend Radish, old Mr Pumpkin, handyman Master Grape) by the fruit ‘aristocracy’ (foppish Prince Lemon, martinet Signor Tomato and twin Countesses Cherries).

national musical drama in five acts, six scenes

Music by Modest Musorgsky
Orchestrated by Dmitry Shostakovich
Libretto by the composer

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

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: Justus Frantz

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Gotlib Stefany, the after of the play is Christoph Friedrich Brezner
Аuthor of the translation of the recetatives: Muza Pavlova (Moscow "Music," 1986 edition)

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

ballet-féerie in three acts with a prologue and apotheosis

Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography by Marius Petipa (1890)
Libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky and Marius Petipa, after tales by Charles Perrault

opera by Pyotr TchaikovskyConductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Libretto by the composer based on Vasily Zhukovsky's translation of Schiller's play

ballet in three acts choreography by Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, and Pyotr Gusev revised by Nikita Dolgushin Cast Medora � Yulia LukyanenkoConrad � Danila KhamzinGulnara � Ekaterina OdarenkoAli � Mikhail Batalov Conductor � Valentin Bogdanov

Ballet-féerie in three acts with a Prologue and Apotheosis. Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Libretto: Ivan Vsevolozhsky, Marius Petipa; after tales: Charles Perrault. Choreography: Marius Petipa

Conductor: Valery Gergiev

opera by Mikhail Glinka

Music by Mikhail Glinka
Libretto by Mikhail Glinka, Konstantin Bakhturin, Alexander Shakhovskoi, Valerian Shirkov, Mikhail Gedeonov, Nestor Kukolnik and Nikolai Markevich after the poem by Alexander Pushkin

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