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

Ballet in two acts Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Nacho Duato has given ballet lovers a new production of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The most ‘Christmassy’ of all classical ballets, The Nutcracker has become a symbol of magical transformation and the constant renewal of life.

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 a prologue and four acts. Music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Libretto by Vladimir Belsky after the folktale in verse of the same name by Alexander Pushkin

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

opera buffa in two acts music by Gioachino Rossini production by Éric Vigié Conductor — Philipp Selivanov

opera by Gioachino Rossini

Music by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti

The preliminary evening of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen in four scenes. Music by Richard Wagner. Libretto by the composer.

CHRISTMAS GALA Conductor — Alexander Soloviev

The first day of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen in three acts. Music by Richard Wagner. Libretto by the composer.

The second day of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen in three acts. Music by Richard Wagner. Libretto by the composer

The third day of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen in three acts with prologue. Music by Richard Wagner. Libretto by the composer

opera in four acts

Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle after the play of the same name by Friedrich von Schiller

Opera-féerie in two parts Music by Rodion Shchedrin Libretto by the composer after motifs of the fairy-tale by Božena Němcová translated by Nikolai Leskov and Russian folk fairy-tales

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.

Opera in a prologue and four acts. Music by Sergei Prokofiev. Libretto by Sergei Prokofiev based on a scenario by Vsevolod Meyerhold, Vladimir Solovyov and Konstantin Vogak after the fabia by Carlo Gozzi

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.

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

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

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.

opera by Gaetano Donizetti Performed in ItalianConductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Giovanni Ruffini

opera by Hector Berlioz Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Music by Hector Berlioz
Libretto by Léon de Wailly and Auguste Barbier, after Cellini´s Memoirs

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

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