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

Opera-buffa in two acts. Music by Gioachino Rossini. Libretto by Cesare Sterbini after Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais' comedy Le Barbier de Séville, ou Précaution inutile.

Ballet in two acts Music by Sergey Prokofiev Nacho Duato has staged his own version of the celebrated ballet Romeo and Juliet because he is convinced that „Sergey Prokofiev’s score is the most amazing thing that has ever been created for the ballet stage“.

Opera in three acts

Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after the tragedy Le roi s´amuse by Victor Hugo

opera in four acts music by Georges Bizet

opera by Hector Berlioz Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Hector Berlioz
Libretto by Léon de Wailly and Auguste Barbier, after Cellini´s Memoirs

A modern version of the classic play from 1945, resurrected in a style fit for a digital-age audience. This production’s calling card has become its successful marriage of lovely ballet from years gone by and modern stage technology. Visual computer effects peacefully coexist with traditional costumes and props. Rostislav Zakharov, to whom the premiere is dedicated in celebration of the 110th anniversary of his birth

opera by Giuseppe VerdiFeaturing Tatiana Serjan, Yulia Matochkina, Oleg Videman

Ballet in three acts. Music by Arif Melikov. Libretto by Nazim Khikmet.

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

opera by Anton RubinsteinConductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Anton Rubinstein
Libretto by Pavel Viskovatov based on the plot of Mikhail Lermontov's poem

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

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

Music by Igor Stravinsky
Libretto by Igor Stravinsky and Stepan Mitussov, after the story The Emperor´s Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen

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

Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky after the play Kong Renés datter by Henrik Hertz

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

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 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.

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

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

Music by Igor Stravinsky

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus MozartFeaturing Larisa Yudina, Oxana Shilova, Roman Shirokikh, Ilya Bannik, Irina Mataeva, Vadim Kravets

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 two actsmusic by Aram Khachaturian choreography by George Kovtun

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