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

Fantasy ballet in two acts. The ballet tells the story of a lovely peasant girl named Giselle who has a passion for dancing, and when she finds out the man she loves is engaged to someone else she dies of a broken heart.

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The vocal ensemble Arielle and soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre

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 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 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

opera in five actsFeaturing Maria Bayankina, Yevgeny Nikitin

Music by Sergei Prokofiev
Libretto by the composer, after the historical novel by Valery Briusov

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

national musical drama in five acts, six scenes

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

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

ballet in two actsmusic by Aram Khachaturian choreography by George Kovtun

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

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

Opera in four acts and six scenes. Music by Sergei Prokofiev. Libretto by the composer after the novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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).

A Fantasy ballet in two acts. Music: By Adolphe Adam. Libretto: Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Théophile Gautier, and Jean Coralli. Choreography: Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, and Marius Petipa

Ballet in three acts. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera in three acts Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Opera in four acts, nine scenes. Music by Dmitry Shostakovich (1932 version) Libretto by Alexander Preis and the composer after the short story by Nikolai Leskov

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

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

Ballet in three acts. Music by Ludwig Minkus

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

Music by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa after the play of the same name by Victorien Sardou