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

melodramma giocoso in two acts

Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Felice Romani

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

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

opera by Gaetano Donizetti Performed in ItalianConductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Giovanni Ruffini

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 two actsmusic by Aram Khachaturian choreography by George Kovtun

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

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

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

Opera in five acts, seven scenes. Music by Sergei Prokofiev. Libretto by the composer and Valentin Kataev, after the novell I, Son of the Working People by Valentin Kataev

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.

Opera in four acts. Music by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after the tragedy by William Shakespeare

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

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

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.

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

Ballets by Michel Fokine. Music by Robert Schumann

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

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

The historical fresco depicting the events of the French Revolution has returned to the stage, fanning the audience with the flames of the struggle for freedom and personal dignity. Vasily Vainonen’s choreography, hailed as the most outstanding achievement of Soviet ballet, has been recreated by Mikhail Messerer.

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

opera in four acts music by Georges Bizet

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

Opera in two acts with a prologue. Music by Ruggero Leoncavallo. Libretto by the composer