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

opera by Jacques OffenbachConductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Jacques Offenbach
Libretto by Jules Barbier after the play by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after works by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

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

Opera in three acts, four scenes. Music by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after Alexandre Dumas fils´s play La Dame aux camélias

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 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

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

Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the drama Don Álvaro, o La fuerza del sino by Ángel de Saavedra

Opera in three acts Music by Giacomo Puccini Libertto: Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa after the play Floria Tosca by Victorien Sardou

Ballet in three acts Music by Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold

ballet in two acts music by Maurice Jarre Cast Esmeralda — Prisca ZeiselQuasimodo — Ivan VasilievClaude Frollo — Ernest LatypovPhoebus — Danila Khamzin Conductor — Mikhail Tatarnikov

ballet in two acts music by Alexander Krein сhoreography by Vakhtang Chabukiani revised by Mikhail Messerer Laurencia — Angelina VorontsovaFrondoso — Ernest Latypov     debut Conductor — Pavel Sorokin

Opera buffa in two acts. Music by Gaetano Donizetti

opera in four actsmusic by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart production by Vyacheslav Starodubtsev Conductor — Philipp Selivanov

Opera in four acts. Music by Giacomo Puccini. Libretto by Marco Praga, Domenico Oliva, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. after the novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon.

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 in four actsmusic by Pyotr Tchaikovsky production by Sergey Novikov

Opera in two acts Music by Boris Asafiev Based on the story by the French writer and the screen play by the Russian storyteller Evgeny Schwarz, stage director Olga Mukhortova created a bright and festive performance, which is sure to be popular with the little ones.

The most lyrical Verdi’s work is La traviata, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils The Lady of the Camellias. The title La traviata means literally The Fallen Woman, or perhaps more figuratively, The Woman Who Goes Astray.

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 two acts Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder