Repertoire of Мариинский театр, Санкт-Петербург

Action of the opera of Mussorgsky "Boris Godunov" takes place in troubled times, when after the death of Ivan the Terrible in Russia started an epidemic of impostors. The thirst of unlimited power has become universal disease ... "Boris Godunov" -

The action takes place in a fictional city in Europe - Roulettenburg where the characters of the opera meet. Alexey travels with the family of a Russian general as a tutor of his children. The general is deep in debt and hopes only on

Verdi's opera La Traviata was staged on the drama of A. Dumas "La Dame aux Camelias". It tells the love story of the courtesan Violetta and a young count ("La Traviata" in Italian - "fallen women"), whose happiness was destroyed with prejudices of

From Pushkin's novel in verse Tchaikovsky took only what was associated with spiritual world and personal destiny of Pushkin's characters and called his opera "lyrical scenes." The story of unrequited love between lady Tatyana

Opera Don Carlos is based on the eponymous drama of Schiller's, and it also takes liberties with historical facts. But if for Schiller ideas and struggle for freedom were important , in the center of Verdi's attention

Like many other works where the protagonist is Don Quixote, an opera by Massenet only slightly relates on the story and characters of the famous novel by Cervantes. The immediate source of the libretto here was the play of french poet Jacques Le

Opera The Marriage of Figaro was written based on the stage comedy by Beaumarchais in the best tradition of Italian opera-buffa. In this respect,  it has typical features: plot, full of comic clashes,

Opera Faust was based on the first part of Goethe's tragedy "Faust." Experiences of lovers are revealed in Gounod's music with great force and conviction. Faust is one of those French lyric opera, where the best of the

"The Nose" is the first and satirical opera by Dmitry Shostakovich. It was written in the years 1927-1928 based on novel of Nikolai Gogol. The story tells of how one St. Petersburg official looses his nose and

The opera "Carmen" - so called opéra comique, is yet another story of a burning love and murderous jealousy. At the premier Georges Bizet was booed. Now this music is world-famous.

One act operas by Puccini

The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by Vladimir Belsky, and is based on a combination of two Russian legends: that of St. Fevroniya of

performed in Italian (the performance will have synchronised Russian supertitles)

performed in Russian (the performance will have synchronised English supertitles)