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

opera in one act

Music by Richard Strauss
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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 by Vincenzo BelliniFeaturing Olga Pudova, Klim Tikhonov, Gevorg Grigoryan, Vladislav Kupriyanov, Daria Riabokon

Music by Vincenzo Bellini
Libretto by Count Carlo Pepoli, based on the play Têtes rondes et cavaliers written by Jacques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Boniface, known as Saintine

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

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

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

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).

Opera in four acts. Music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Libretto by Vladimir Belsky, after a Russian legend

opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo Featuring Akhmed Agadi, Yevgenia Muravieva, Roman Burdenko, Yevgeny Akhmedov, Vladislav Kupriyanov

Music by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Libretto by the composer

opera by Leo Delibes Featuring Aigul Khismatullina, Yevgeny Akhmedov, Viktor Korotich

Music by Leo Delibes
Libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille

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.

opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Conductor: Valery Gergiev

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

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

Opera in three acts

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

melodrama in three acts

Music by Édouard Deldevez, Ludwig Minkus and Riccardo Drigo
Libretto by Yuri Smekalov

"There is no sadder story in the world than the story of Romeo and Juliet" Music Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Choreography: Elizabeth Menshikova

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

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

Fantasy ballet in two acts. Music by Adolphe Adam.

ballet in two actsmusic by Aram Khachaturian choreography by George Kovtun

Ballet in three acts. Music by Ludwig Minkus

Opera in three acts. Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Libretto: Modest Tchaikovsky after the novel by Alexander Pushkin