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 Theatre | Mariinsky II | Mariinsky Concert Hall | Mikhailovskiy theatre | The Hermitage Theatre | The Nikolaevsky Palace | Smolninsky Concert Hall | |
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| 23 January thursday | Mazepa | The Sleeping Beauty | Le nozze di Figaro | Don Quixote | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 24 January friday | The Fountain of Bakhchisarai | Falstaff | The Love for Three Oranges | The Queen of Spades | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 25 January saturday | The Fountain of Bakhchisarai The Story of Kai and Gerda | Rigoletto | Performing Brahms: Trio, Quartet and Quintet Peer Gynt | Getting to Know the Orchestra Hammerburg: the City of the Percussions Swan Lake Getting to Know the Orchestra Hammerburg: the City of the Percussions | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 26 January sunday | The Young Lady and the Hooligan The Young Lady and the Hooligan. Leningrad Symphony | Il barbiere di Siviglia Il barbiere di Siviglia | The Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble Brundibár | Cipollino The Epoch and the Dimensions of Romanticism: Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms Swan Lake | Swan lake | Feel yourself Russian | |
| 27 January monday | Schnittke. Shostakovich | Shostakovich. Gavrilin. Sviridov. Prokofiev | Feel yourself Russian | ||||
| 28 January tuesday | La Bayadère | Die Frau ohne Schatten | Messa da Requiem | Swan lake | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 29 January wednesday | La Bayadère | Il trovatore | Pelléas et Mélisande | Spartacus | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 30 January thursday | Les Noces. Le Sacre du printemps | The Enchantress | Messiaen. Turangalîla-symphonie | Spartacus | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 31 January friday | Turandot | Swan Lake | Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony | Spartacus | Swan lake | Feel yourself Russian | |
| 1 February saturday | Die Puppenfee Swan Lake | La traviata | East fairy tales: Scheherazade The Love for Three Oranges | Un ballo in maschera Hammerburg: the City of the Percussions Hammerburg: the City of the Percussions | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 2 February sunday | Don Quixote Don Quixote | La traviata La traviata | A Ballad about a Noble Corsair St Petersburg House of Music soloists | La Fille mal gardée La Fille mal gardée | Swan lake | Feel yourself Russian | |
| 3 February monday | Organum Novum | Feel yourself Russian | |||||
| 4 February tuesday | The Turn of the Screw | Spartacus | Feel yourself Russian | ||||
| 5 February wednesday | The Gambler | Spartacus | Boyarina Morozova | Romeo and Juliet | Swan lake | Feel yourself Russian | |
| 6 February thursday | Sadko | Infra. Marguerite and Armand | Benvenuto Cellini | Romeo and Juliet | Swan lake | Feel yourself Russian | |
| 7 February friday | Giselle | Falstaff | An Evening of Contemporary Choreography | Tosca | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 8 February saturday | La forza del destino | The Bronze Horseman | German fairy tales Teodor Currentzis, Chorus and Orchestra MusicAeterna | Don Quixote La Bayadère Don Quixote | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 9 February sunday | Iolanta Iolanta | The Bronze Horseman The Bronze Horseman | Die Zauberflöte Novosibirsk Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra | La Bayadère La Bayadère | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 10 February monday | Parsifal | Nabucco | Feel yourself Russian | ||||
| 11 February tuesday | Swan Lake | Verdi. Requiem | National Treasures | Aida Evening of One-Act Ballets | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 12 February wednesday | Swan Lake | Pelléas et Mélisande | Concert of the Mikhailovsky Symphony Orchestra Giselle, ou Les Wilis | Feel yourself Russian | |||
| 13 February thursday | Giselle | Lolita | Sibelius | Aida | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 14 February friday | Le Parc | Salome | Varvara Nepomnyashchaya recital (piano) | Cinderella | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 15 February saturday | Le Parc | Lolita | Daphnis et Chloé | Cinderella Cinderella | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 16 February sunday | La Sylphide La Sylphide | Simon Boccanegra | Masterpieces for all times Maxim Mogilevsky (piano) and Valery Gergiev | Don Quixote Don Quixote | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 17 February monday | Kevin Bowyer | Feel yourself Russian | |||||
| 18 February tuesday | The Legend of Love | War and Peace | Mozart. The Marriage of Figaro | Swan lake | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 19 February wednesday | The Legend of Love | War and Peace | Not Love Alone | The Sleeping Beauty | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 20 February thursday | Verdi. Requiem | Gemma di Vergy | The Sleeping Beauty | Feel yourself Russian | |||
| 21 February friday | Così fan tutte | Yaroslavna. The Eclipse | Aida | The Sleeping Beauty | Feel yourself Russian | ||
| 22 February saturday | Khovanshchina | The Sleeping Beauty | Berlioz. Beethoven | La traviata Iolanta | Feel yourself Russian |
This is a preliminary playbill which might be changed by the theaters. We renovate the program as new information becomes available.
To book tickets please send the following info to e-mail info@peterguide.com :
- date
- theatre
- performance choosen
- number of tickets
- your preferences regarding the quality of seats
Payment is accomplished via Western Union or by bank transfer, details upon request.
Check the schedule at the St. Petersburg theatres and order your tickets ahead of time to ensure great seats and avoid possible disappointments.
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