ST. PETERSBURG THEATRES

Saint Petersburg has more than 40 different ballet, opera and drama theatres first of which was opened as early as 1714. Our city is the motherland of Russian ballet - Imperial Ballet Academy (now famous Vaganov school) was opened here in 1738. Among its graduates were such world famous dancers as Matilda Kshesinskaya, Anna Pavlova, Galina Ulanova, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nuriev and many others.

St.Petersburg conservatoire was established in 1783. Among its professors and graduates were such prominent Russian composers as Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Rahmaninov, Stravinsky et ali. You can enjoy their operas and ballets in famous Mariinsky and Mikhailovsky theaters and in several other concert halls located in historical palaces. You can listen also to operas by world known western composers like Bizet, Wagner, Verdi et ali performed in the language of original or in Russian.

St.Petersburg Philharmonic society was established in 1802 being first in Europe. The present hall on Square of Arts with wonderful acoustics was opened in 1839. Since that time many renowned musicians were performing here (List, Vagner, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and many others). Since 1988 its orchestra is conducted by world famous director Yuri Temirkanov.

You should not leave St.Petersburg without visiting unbelievably remarkable Russian Folklore Show in Nikolaevsky palace - it is really a "Big Show"!
As you can see Saint Petersburg has a splendid cultural life for all tastes.

PRINCIPAL THEATRES OF ST.PETERSBURG

	Mariinsky II	Mariinsky Concert Hall	Mikhailovskiy theatre	The Hermitage Theatre	The Nikolaevsky Palace
19 August monday			Swan Lake 20:00 ballet		Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
20 August tuesday			Swan Lake 20:00 ballet		Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
21 August wednesday			Swan Lake 20:00 ballet	Swan Lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
22 August thursday				Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
23 August friday				Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
24 August saturday				Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
25 August sunday				Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
26 August monday					Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
27 August tuesday				Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
28 August wednesday				Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
29 August thursday				Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
30 August friday					Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
31 August saturday			Dresden Opera Ball in St. Petersburg 18:30	Swan Lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
1 September sunday				Swan Lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
2 September monday				Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
3 September tuesday				Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
4 September wednesday				Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
5 September thursday					Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
6 September friday		Sergei Dogadin (violin, 1st prize) and Valery Gergiev 20:00	Don Quixote 19:30 ballet	Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
7 September saturday		Alexandre Kantorow recital (piano, 1st prize and Grand Prix) 20:00	Don Quixote 19:30 ballet	Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
8 September sunday	La fanciulla del West 19:30 opera	Tianxu An recital (piano, 4th prize) 19:00	The Queen of Spades 18:00 opera		Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
9 September monday	Swan Lake 19:00 ballet		The Sleeping Beauty 20:00 ballet	Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
10 September tuesday		Aida 19:00 opera	The Sleeping Beauty 19:30 ballet	Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
11 September wednesday	Swan Lake 19:00 ballet	Aida 19:00 opera	The Sleeping Beauty 20:00 ballet		Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
12 September thursday	Eugene Onegin 19:00 opera	Santiago Cañón-Valencia (cello, 2nd prize), Nikita Vaganov (clarinet, 5th prize) and the Mariinsky Orchestra 19:00	Die Zauberflöte 19:00 opera	Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
13 September friday		Die Zauberflöte 19:00 opera	Cinderella 19:30 ballet	Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
14 September saturday	Sleeping Beauty Dreams 19:00	Matvey Demin recital (flute, 1st prize) 19:00 Prokofiev. Symphony No 1. Peter and the Wolf 12:00 Prokofiev. Symphony No 1. Peter and the Wolf 15:00	Cinderella 13:00 ballet Cinderella 19:30 ballet	Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
15 September sunday	Sleeping Beauty Dreams 19:00	Boyarina Morozova 19:00 opera How a ballet is staged 12:00	Love Story 16:30		Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
16 September monday			Tosca 19:00 opera	Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
17 September tuesday	The Enchantress 19:00 opera	Le Divertissement du roi. Ballet No 2 19:00 ballet	Swan Lake 19:30 ballet		Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show
18 September wednesday	Romeo and Juliet 19:00 ballet	Das Rheingold 19:00	Swan Lake 20:00 ballet	Swan lake 20:00 ballet	Feel yourself Russian 19:00 folk show

This is a preliminary playbill which might be changed by the theaters. We renovate the program as new information becomes available.

The Nutcracker ballet

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