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.

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).

national musical drama in five acts, six scenes

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

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

Ballet in three acts. Music by Reinhold Glière Libretto by Pyotr Abolimov after the poem by Alexander Pushkin

Ballet in three acts. Music by Ludwig Minkus

opera by Mikhail Glinka Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Mikhail Glinka
Libretto by Yegor Rosen

Opera in three acts Music by Giuseppe Verdi The assassination of Gustav III of Sweden in 1792 became the basis of many plays and operas, among them an opera libretto by Eugène Scribe, set by Giuseppe Verdi in 1859 as Un ballo in maschera

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 three acts Music by Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold

ballet in two actsmusic by Aram Khachaturian choreography by George Kovtun

opera by Richard Wagner Featuring Mikhail Vekua, René Pape, Yulia Matochkina, Alexei Markov, Yevgeny Nikitin, Gleb Periazev Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Richard Wagner
Libretto by the composer

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 (thirteen scenes) Music by Sergei Prokofiev Libretto by Andrian Piotrovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Radlov and Leonid Lavrovsky, based on the tragedy by William Shakespeare

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

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

melodramma giocoso in two acts

Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Felice Romani

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

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 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