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

One-act ballets

Music by Georges Bizet – Rodion Shchedrin
Choreography by Alberto Alonso

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

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 Rodion Shchedrin Featuring Yekaterina Sergeyeva, Alexander Trofimov, Andrei Serov, Yekaterina Latysheva

Conductor: Nikolaj Znaider

Opera in four acts. Music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Libretto by the composer after tale by Nikolai Gogol

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

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

opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Libretto by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Viktor Burenin based on the epic poem Poltava by Alexander Pushkin

Opera in a prologue and four acts. Music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Libretto by Vladimir Belsky after the folktale in verse of the same name by Alexander Pushkin

Russian Circus show in two acts Director Askold Zapashniy

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

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

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

opera buffa in two acts music by Gioachino Rossini production by Éric Vigié Conductor — Philipp Selivanov

opera by Gioachino Rossini

Music by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti

The preliminary evening of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen in four scenes. Music by Richard Wagner. Libretto by the composer.

CHRISTMAS GALA Conductor — Alexander Soloviev

The first day of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen in three acts. Music by Richard Wagner. Libretto by the composer.

The second day of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen in three acts. Music by Richard Wagner. Libretto by the composer

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

The third day of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen in three acts with prologue. Music by Richard Wagner. Libretto by the composer

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

opera in four acts

Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle after the play of the same name by Friedrich von Schiller

Opera-féerie in two parts Music by Rodion Shchedrin Libretto by the composer after motifs of the fairy-tale by Božena Němcová translated by Nikolai Leskov and Russian folk fairy-tales