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

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

Ballet in two acts after the novel by Lev Tolstoy. Music by Rodion Shchedrin. Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky.

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

opera in five actsFeaturing Maria Bayankina, Yevgeny Nikitin

Music by Sergei Prokofiev
Libretto by the composer, after the historical novel by Valery Briusov

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

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.

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

Conductor: Valery Gergiev

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)

Music by Camille Saint-Saёns
Libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire

CHRISTMAS GALA Conductor — Alexander Soloviev

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

Romantic opera in three acts (revival of the 1999 production). 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

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 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

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.

Fantasy ballet in two acts. Music by Adolphe Adam.

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.

Opera in three acts Music by Giuseppe Verdi The assassination of Gustav III of Sweden in 1792 became the basis of many plays and operas, among them an opera libretto by Eugène Scribe, set by Giuseppe Verdi in 1859 as Un ballo in maschera

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

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.