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 severalВ otherВ 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 В 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 musiciansВ 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
Playbill For mARCH 2012

Playbill for April 2012

Date of March 2012	Mariinsky (Kirov) opera and ballet theatre	Mikhailovsky opera and ballet theater	Hermitage theatre	Conservatory theatre	Folklore show in Nikolaevsky palace (to be confirmed)
1		19.30 Slava Polunin’s Snow Show	19.30 Swan lake ballet Pyotr Tchaikovsky		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
2	19.00 Swan lake ballet Pyotr Tchaikovsky	19.30 Slava Polunin’s Snow Show	19.00 Swan lake ballet Pyotr Tchaikovsky		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
3	19.00 Jewels ballet Gabriel Faure, Igor Stravinsky, Pyotr Tchaikovsky	15.00, 19.00 Slava Polunin’s Snow Show	19.00 Giselle ballet Adolphe Adam		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
4	19.00 Les contes d’Hoffmann opera Jacques Offenbach	14.00, 18.00 Slava Polunin’s Snow Show	19.00 Giselle ballet Adolphe Adam		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
5					19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
6	19.00 Cosi fan tutte opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	19.00 Savonlinna Opera Festival 100 years Anniversary Concert	19.00 Swan lake ballet Pyotr Tchaikovsky		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
7	Alina Somova in 19.00 Le Corsaire ballet Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Leo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo and Pyotr Oldenburgsky	19.00 Laurencia ballet Alexander Krein		19.00 Iolanthe opera Pyotr Tchaikovsky	19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
8	19.00 Madama Butterfly opera Giacomo Puccini	13.00, 19.00 Laurencia ballet Alexander Krein	19.00 Ballet Gala		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
9	19.00 Swan lake ballet Pyotr Tchaikovsky	19.00 Tosca opera Giacomo Puccini	19.00 The Sleeping Beauty opera Pyotr Tchaikovsky		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
10	19.00 Don Giovanni opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	13.00, 19.00 Cipollino ballet Karen Khachaturian	19.00 Don Quixote ballet Ludwig Minkus		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
11	19.00 Shurale ballet Farid Yarullin		19.00 Pietro il Grande opera Gaetano Donizetti		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
12	Viktoria Tereshkina and Vladimir Shklyarov in 19.00 Anna Karenina ballet Rodion Shchedrin				19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
13	19.00 The Makropulos Affair opera Leos Janacek				19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
14	19.00 Eugene Onegin opera Pyotr Tchaikovsky		19.00 Opera Gala	11.00 The Nutcracker ballet Pyotr Tchaikovsky	19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
15	19.00 Romeo and Juliet ballet Sergey Prokofiev		19.00 Giselle ballet Adolphe Adam		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
16	19.00 Macbeth opera Giuseppe Verdi		19.00 Ballet Gala	11.00 The Nutcracker ballet Pyotr Tchaikovsky	19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
17	Alina Somova in 19.00 The Little Humpbacked Horse ballet Rodion Shchedrin		19.00 Don Quixote ballet Ludwig Minkus		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
18	19.00 Aida opera Giuseppe Verdi		19.00 Eduard Artemiev music, concert		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
19					19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
20			19.00 Piano concert		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
21		PREMIERE 19.00 Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness ballet Johann Sebastian Bach	19.00 The Nutcracker ballet Pyotr Tchaikovsky		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
22	Opening of the XII Ballet Festival MARIINSKY 19.00 Prodigal Son, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (premiere), Ballet Imperial ballets Sergey Prokofiev, Johann Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Tchaikovsky	PREMIERE 19.00 Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness ballet Johann Sebastian Bach	19.30 Swan lake ballet Pyotr Tchaikovsky		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
23	19.00 Swan lake ballet Pyotr Tchaikovsky	19.00 La traviata opera Giuseppe Verdi	19.00 Swan lake ballet Pyotr Tchaikovsky	19.00 Swan lake ballet on ice	19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
24	Svetlana Zakharova in 19.00 La Bayadere ballet Ludwig Minkus	PREMIERE 19.00 Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness ballet Johann Sebastian Bach	19.00 Rigoletto opera Giuseppe Verdi	14.00, 17.00 The Sleeping Beauty ballet on ice	19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
25	Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg in 19.00 La Sylphide ballet Herman von Lovenskjold	19.00 La Boheme opera Giacomo Puccini	19.00 Swan lake ballet Pyotr Tchaikovsky	14.00, 17.00 Cinderella ballet on ice	19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
26	19.00 Le parc ballet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	19.00 Rusalka opera Antonin Dvorak			19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
27	Bejart Ballet Lausanne 19.00 Ce que l’Amour me dit. Cantate 51. La ou sont les oiseaux. Bolero ballets Gustav Mahler, Johann Sebastian Bach, Maurice Ravel		19.00 Giselle ballet Adolphe Adam		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
28	Bejart Ballet Lausanne 19.00Ce que l’Amour me dit. Cantate 51. La ou sont les oiseaux. Bolero ballets Gustav Mahler, Johann Sebastian Bach, Maurice Ravel	19.00 The Sleeping Beauty opera Pyotr Tchaikovsky	19.00 Ballet Gala		19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
29	19.00 Gala Concert (Ballet)	19.00 The Sleeping Beauty opera Pyotr Tchaikovsky	19.30 Swan lake ballet Pyotr Tchaikovsky	19.00 Le nozze di Figaro opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian
30	Diana Vishneva in 19.00 Errand into the Maze. Pierrot Lunaire. Subject to Change ballets Gian Carlo Menotti, Arnold Shonberg, Franz Schubert	19.00 The Sleeping Beauty opera Pyotr Tchaikovsky	19.00 Swan lake ballet Pyotr Tchaikovsky
31	Uliana Lopatkina in 19.00 Anna Karenina ballet Rodion Shchedrin	19.00 Iolanthe opera Pyotr Tchaikovsky	19.00 La Bayadere ballet Ludwig Minkus	19.00 Cosi fan tutte opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	19.00 Folklore Show Feel yourself Russian

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

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Principal theatres of St.Petersburg Playbill For mARCH 2012

Principal theatres of St.Petersburg
Playbill For mARCH 2012