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

Music by Sergei Prokofiev Libretto by the composer and Mira Mendelson, after the play The Duenna by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

opera in four acts music by Georges Bizet

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

opera by Richard Wagner Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Richard Wagner
Libretto by the composer

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 by Pyotr TchaikovskyConductor: Valery Gergiev

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

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

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

Fantasy ballet in two acts. Music by Adolphe Adam.

Opera in a prologue and four acts. Music by Sergei Prokofiev. Libretto by Sergei Prokofiev based on a scenario by Vsevolod Meyerhold, Vladimir Solovyov and Konstantin Vogak after the fabia by Carlo Gozzi

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“.

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

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 two acts with a prologue

Music by Benjamin Britten
Libretto by Myfanwy Piper after the novella by Henry James

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

ballet in three acts

Melodrama in three acts. Music by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Antonio Somma, after the play Gustave III by Eugène Scribe

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

ballet by Alexander Sergeev set to music by Boris Tishchenko

Music by Boris Tishchenko (ballet The Twelve based on the poem by Alexander Blok, Three Songs on Verses by Marina Tsvetaeva)

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.

Opera in three acts

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

Music by Charles Gounod Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after motifs from the eponymous legend and tragedy by Goethe

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

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

Grand opera in five acts Music by Hector Berlioz Libretto by Hector Berlioz after motifs from Virgil’s Aeneid