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

Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Libretto by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Konstantin Shilovsky after the poetic novel of the same name by Alexander Pushkin

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

A fabled fantasy ballet in three acts and four scenes with music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. Libretto by Vladimir Begichey and Vasily Geltzer.

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

national musical drama in five acts, six scenes

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

A Fantasy ballet in two acts. Music: By Adolphe Adam. Libretto: Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Théophile Gautier, and Jean Coralli. Choreography: Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, and Marius Petipa

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

one act ballet

Music by Dmitry Shostakovich
Choreography by Konstantin Boyarsky (1962)
Libretto by Alexander Belinsky based on the play of Vladimir Mayakovsky
Set design by Vyacheslav Okunev after Valery Dorrer
Costume design by Tatiana Noginova
Lighting design by Vladimir Lukasevich
Lighting Adaptation for the Mariinsky II by Andrei Ponizovsky and Yegor Kartashov

Fantasy ballet in two acts. Music by Adolphe Adam.

opera in two acts with a prologue

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

opera with a prologue and three acts

Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave revised by Arrigo Boito based on the eponymous play by Antonio García Gutiérrez

Conductor — Alexander Soloviev Mikhailovsky Theatre Orchestra

A fabled fantasy ballet in three acts and four scenes with music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. Libretto by Vladimir Begichey and Vasily Geltzer.

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

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

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.

Dramma lirico in a prologue and three acts. Music by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Temistocle Solera after Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner’s tragedy Attila, König der Hunnen, revised by Francesco Maria Piave

opera by Gaetano Donizetti Performed in ItalianConductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Giovanni Ruffini

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.

lyric drama in three acts and five scenes

Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni after motifs from the story of the same name by Carlo Gozzi

opera by Gioachino RossiniFeaturing Ildar Abdrazakov Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Angelo Anelli

opera in four acts music by Giuseppe Verdi production by Igor Ushakov Aida — Tatiana MelnychenkoRadames — Riccardo MassiRamfis — Barseg TumanyanAmonasro — Kiril Manolov

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

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 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: Justus Frantz

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Gotlib Stefany, the after of the play is Christoph Friedrich Brezner
Аuthor of the translation of the recetatives: Muza Pavlova (Moscow "Music," 1986 edition)