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

Opera in four acts. Music by Georges Bizet. Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy after the novel by Prosper Mérimée

Ballets by Michel Fokine. Music by Robert Schumann

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (with prologue The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga)Featuring Yekaterina Goncharova, Oleg Videman, Stanislav Trofimov, Mikhail Kit

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 three acts Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano after Sir Walter Scott´s novel The Bride of Lammermoor

opera in four acts music by Georges Bizet

Lyric opera in three acts. Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Libretto by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Konstantin Shilovsky after the poetic novel of the same name by Alexander Pushkin

Opera in four acts. Music by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano.

Triple bill by Nacho Duato. Without Words is Nacho Duato’s second work for the prestigious American Ballet Theater company. The title refers to Schubert’s songs scores, which are instrumental music, music without words.

Music by Francesco Cilea
Libretto by Arturo Colautti based on the eponymous play by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé

Opera in four acts, nine scenes. Music by Dmitry Shostakovich (1932 version) Libretto by Alexander Preis and the composer after the short story by Nikolai Leskov

Ballet in two acts. Music by Rodion Shchedrin Libretto by Maxim Isaev after the tale of Pyotr Yershov

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

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

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

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

operetta by Johann Strauss IIFeaturing Sergei Semishkur, Antonina Vesenina, Denis Zakirov, Vladislav Kupriyanov, Yekaterina SergeyevaConductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Johann Strauss II
Libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée after a farce Das Gefängnis (The Prison) by Julius Roderich Benedix and vaudeville Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Russian text by Nikolai Erdman and Mikhail Volpin

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus MozartFeaturing Larisa Yudina, Oxana Shilova, Roman Shirokikh, Ilya Bannik, Irina Mataeva, Vadim Kravets

Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky after the play Kong Renés datter by Henrik Hertz

Opera in three acts

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

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

opera by Giuseppe VerdiFeaturing Plácido Domingo, Sergei Skorokhodov, Mikhail Petrenko, Tatiana Serjan, Ekaterina SemenchukConductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Temistocle Solera

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 in three acts and ten scenes. Music by Dmitry Shostakovich. Libretto by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, Alexander Preis and the composer after the short story by Nikolai Gogol

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.