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There are more than 100 theaters in St. Petersburg. Luxurious opera, unique ballet and magnificent symphony concerts the most famous theater of St. Petersburg in November 2017 in the selection from Peter Online:

19:00 - Matam Butterfly. Japanese tragedy in 3 acts (Mariinsky-2). Ticket prices from 1200 before 2400 rubles

19:00 - "Stone flower". Ballet in 3 acts ( Mariinskii Opera House). Ticket prices from 1600 before 6000 rubles.

19:00 - "Director of the theater." Comedy with music in one act (Concert Hall). Ticket prices from 800 before 1500 rubles.

12:00 - " 2000 before 3400 rubles.

12:00 - " Vibraphone and five magic wands. Tales by moonlight". Lyrical scenes in 3 acts (Mariinsky-2). Ticket prices from 2000 before 3400 rubles.

19:00 - "The power of fate". Opera in four acts (Mariinsky Theatre). Ticket prices from 800 before 3400 rubles.

19:00 - " Romeo and Juliet 2800 before 6000 rubles.

12:00 - " magical flute". Opera in two acts (Concert Hall). Ticket prices from 700 before 2200 rubles.

19:30 - " Romeo and Juliet". Ballet in three acts, thirteen scenes (Mariinsky 2). Ticket prices from 4000 before 8000 rubles.

19:30 - " Prodigal son. Violin Concerto No. 2. Russian Overture". Ballets to music by Sergei Prokofiev (Mariinsky-2). Ticket prices from 1700 before 4300 rubles.

20:00 - " Trio Andrea Marchelli 1200 before 2500 rubles.

4000 before 8000 rubles.

19:00 - Spartak. Ballet in three acts (Mariinsky 2). Ticket prices from 5200 before 8000 rubles.

19:00 - Don Quixote. Ballet in 3 acts, 6 scenes (Mariinsky Theatre). Ticket prices from 2000 before 6000 rubles.

19:00 - "Queen of Spades". Opera in 3 acts (Mariinsky-2). Ticket prices from 2000 before 4000 rubles.

12:00 - " Sylph". Ballet in two acts (Mariinsky Theatre). Ticket prices from 1700 before 5000 rubles.

13:00 - "Mermaid". Opera in 3 acts (Concert Hall). Ticket prices from 700 before 2500 rubles.

19:00 - "Aida". Opera in four acts (Mariinsky Theatre). Ticket prices from 1300 before 4000 rubles.

19:00 - Ville Urponen. Evening of organ music (Concert Hall). Ticket prices from 800 before 1500 rubles.

19:30 - "Samson and Delilah". Opera in three acts (Mariinsky-2). Ticket prices from 1200 before 3400 rubles.

19:00 - Mazepa. Opera in three acts, seven scenes (staged in 1950) (Mariinsky Theatre). Ticket prices from 1400 before 3400 rubles.

19:00 - "Thieving Magpie". Melodrama in two acts (concert performance) (Concert Hall). Ticket prices from 800 before 1500 rubles.

19:30 - Don Quixote. Opera in five acts (Mariinsky Theatre). Ticket prices from 1200 before 3400 rubles.

19:00 - "Prince Igor" Opera in two acts with a prologue (Mariinsky Theatre). Ticket prices from 2300 before 4300 rubles.

12:00 - " 1000 rubles.

13:30 - " Travels of the clarinet and double bass". Author and presenter - Olga Piccolo (Mussorgsky Hall). Ticket price 1000 rubles.

12:00 - " Once upon a time in Italy". From the Academy of Young Theatergoers (Concert Hall). Ticket prices from 1000 before 1500 rubles .

12:00 - " 1000 rubles.

13:30 - " Cinderella or glass slipper". (Hall Shchedrin). Ticket price 1000 rubles.

19:00 - Troubadour. Opera in four acts (Mariinsky-2). Ticket prices from 1200 before 3400 rubles.

19:00 - " State Quartet named after A.P. Borodin" (Concert hall). Ticket prices from 1000 before 1500 rubles.

19:00 - " Lady Macbeth Mtsensk district ". Performance by the Samara Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. Opera in four acts (Mariinsky-2). Ticket prices from 1200 before 3400 rubles.
- 19:00 - « Gavrilin. chimes". (Concert hall). Ticket prices from 800 before 1500 rubles.

19:00 - " Idomeneo, king of Crete". Opera in 3 acts (Mariinsky-2). Ticket prices from 1200 before 3200 rubles.

19:00 - " Golden strings. Violin Evening" (Concert hall). Ticket prices from 1000 before 1500 rubles.

19:30 - " Bakhchisarai fountain". Choreographic poem in four acts with a prologue and an epilogue (Mariinsky Theatre). Ticket prices from 2000 before 6000 rubles.

19:00 - " Koschei the Immortal". Opera (Autumn Tale) in one act, three scenes (concert performance) (Concert Hall). Ticket prices from 800 before 1500 rubles.

19:00 - "Samson and Delilah". Opera in three acts (Mariinsky-2). Ticket prices from 1200 before 3400 rubles.

14:00 - " Masterpieces for all time". Beethoven. Symphony No. 7 (Concert Hall). Ticket prices from 1000 before 1500 rubles.

19:00 - " Miroslav Kultyshev (piano)»
In memory of the pianist, professor of the St. Petersburg Conservatory Pavel Grigorievich Egorov.
Program: Rachmaninov (Concert Hall).
Ticket prices from 1000 before 1500 rubles.

19:00 - " Flying Dutchman". Opera in three acts (Mariinsky-2). Ticket prices from 1200 before 3400 rubles.

19:00 - " A dream in a summer night". Opera in three acts (Concert Hall). Ticket prices from 700 before 3000 rubles.

19:30 - " Yaroslavna. Eclipse". Ballet in three acts (Mariinsky-2). Ticket prices from 1800 before 4300 rubles.

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Mariinsky-2: st. Dekabristov, 34

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The theater is deservedly considered one of the oldest in Russia and is known throughout the world due to the high level of training of opera singers and choreographic troupe.

Guests of the Northern capital who want to join the world of art should find out in advance where the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg is located. The main building is located on Theater Square, but opera and ballet lovers can also visit branches of the Mariinsky Theater (as the theater is popularly called). By the address:

Second stage (Mariinka-2): st. Decembrists, 34;
Concert Hall (Mariinka-3): st. Decembrists, 37;
Seaside scene: Vladivostok, st. Fastovskaya, 20.

Although the current building was opened to the public in 1860 with the premiere of the famous opera A Life for the Tsar, the official date of birth of the Mariinsky Theater is late 18th century. In October 1783, the Grand opening The Bolshoi Theater, built on the personal order of Empress Catherine and designed by the famous Italian architect Rinaldi. Italian and French operas were often staged here, as well as vocal concerts and musical evenings.

In the 19th century, most of the performances were staged on the stage of the Circus Theatre, built opposite the Bolshoi and almost completely destroyed by fire in 1859. At the same time, work began on the construction of a new imperial theater, which became a real architectural decoration of the city. They were led by the talented Italian architect Alberto Cavosa.

Most visitors are interested in who the Mariinsky Theater is named after. The harmonious name was given to him in honor of the wife of the Russian monarch, Maria. The wife of the then ruler Alexander II was known as a real patroness of fine arts. Therefore, the first performers of the Mariinsky Theater were the singers and choreographers of her personal troupe.

Theater interior

The building of the Mariinsky Theater is interesting not only for its unusual semicircular shape, but also for its interior. When visiting the performance, you should pay attention to the following attractions:

Royal lodge. It is one of the largest and most pompous in the building. Once the box was decorated with a monogram, which picturesquely combined the first letters of the names of Tsar Alexander II and his wife. In Soviet times, it was replaced by the hammer and sickle emblem, but in the 90s of the twentieth century, the original decoration of the box was restored. Now ordinary people can buy tickets to it on the official website of the Mariinsky Theater, located in the center of St. Petersburg, unless seats are reserved for diplomats and members of the government. The cost of tickets to the royal box is 4100-4400 RUB. In the wall of the box, you can see a secret door behind the scenes, which leads directly to the dressing rooms of the artists, to the "women's part" of the theater. According to legend, in this way the Russian tsars visited their beloved ballerinas incognito.

Orchestra pit with rising and falling floor. For this, hydraulic lifts are mounted in it. During the restoration of the building, a layer of fragments of broken crystal dishes was discovered under the floor covering. As it turns out, more than 200 years ago, architects used it to improve room acoustics.

Hall of Alexander Golovin, equipped directly under the roof of the theater and bearing the name of an outstanding Russian painter of the late 19th - first half of the 20th century. Nowadays, most of the scenery for operas and ballets is created here. Many of them can safely be called masterpieces. visual arts. The chair is still kept in the room, in which the artist is painted on a portrait by his colleague Yakovlev. This painting can be seen in the foyer of the 3rd tier.

The room is famous for the fact that it was in it that Golovin painted his famous painting, on which the genius Chaliapin is depicted as the usurper Godunov from the opera of the same name. Here the outstanding Russian poets Voloshin and Gumilyov quarreled, and it came to bloodshed and a duel.

Curtain. Its author is the same Golovin, who performed it surprisingly skillfully in the 1910s. The curtain is considered a symbol of the Mariinsky Theater and combines traditional pictorial techniques and applications, exactly reproducing the train pattern from one of Empress Maria's ceremonial dresses.

three tier chandelier, made of bronze and illuminating the auditorium. Its weight is over 2 tons. More than 200 light bulbs are installed in the lamp, giving an unusually bright light thanks to more than 2000 crystal pendants. The latter adorn all tiers of the chandelier, and the ceiling is painted with images of merry nymphs and cupids, as well as portraits of famous domestic playwrights of past centuries.

Bell, "dwelling" in the theater for over 200 years. It is used in the opera productions Khovanshchina and Boris Godunov. According to legend, immediately after the revolution, he was removed from one of the temples and thrown into the Neva. From there he was pulled out shortly before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War and donated to the Mariinsky Theatre.

Repertoire of the Mariinsky Theater

The poster of the Mariinsky Theater for 2017 will delight art lovers with a variety of opera and ballet performances. Some of them have been on stage for decades, others are designed for lovers of new products in the field of beauty. The repertoire of the Mariinsky last years includes the following views:

The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia. This mystical story about love for the motherland and tender feelings of the prince and a simple girl in the interpretation of the directors received a completely new sound. From the Old Slavonic legend, the action of the opera is quite organically transferred to our modern reality with homeless people and the clothes of heroes familiar to the 21st century. People depicting animals, insects instead of dashing invaders-Tatars and today's homeless people in the role of beggars of the 13th century look quite shocking.
"Swan Lake". The main stage of the theater has become the scene of the action of the beautiful love story between Prince Siegfried and the enchanted swan princess who never lost her charm. The ballet to the immortal music of Tchaikovsky is a classical choreographic production based on the ideas of the famous choreographer Marius Petipa.
"Music is pleasant and unpleasant." At this purely instrumental concert you will hear both melodic and touching, as well as unusual and rather extravagant musical works performed by talented violinists, pianists, clarinetists, cellists and flutists.
"Carmen". In the new version of the opera, all the same famous opera parts sound, but its action is somewhat modernized and evokes more associations with our reality. A special find of the director is the use of a large number of stairs as scenery. According to him, they symbolize the desire human soul to something sublime and divine.
"Salome". This is one of the most anticipated productions of the New Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. The biblical story of the beautiful stepdaughter of Herod, who demanded the head of the prophet on a platter, turns into a struggle of global ideas on which human society is based: selfishness and altruism. The spectacle of the opera is added by modern video graphics.
"Enufa". The story of a lonely pregnant girl who was abandoned by her lover is as old as the world, but the artists of the Mariinsky Theater managed to give it a new sound. In the difficult family ups and downs of this opera, many of the audience will find out what happened to them or their friends.
"Giselle". The experiences of the young heroine, deceived by her lover and who died suddenly, are unlikely to leave ballet fans indifferent. Incredibly beautiful dances of heroes, reflecting the whole gamut of human emotions, will be a real gift for true aesthetes.

Theater map showing seats

How to get to the theater

Almost all performances of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg are sold out, so you should buy tickets in advance. To do this, it is not necessary to go to the box office: almost any place can be ordered online. The theater has a subscription system. So, you can purchase a pass to all performances with music by Tchaikovsky or Prokofiev, Shchedrin's productions, or even become the owner of a family subscription that includes attendance at children's performances. Subscriptions are valid for the entire season, and their value is reviewed every year.

If you are planning to visit the opera for the first time, buy tickets to the Mariinsky Theater on the third tier: here the voices of the singers are perceived much better. But ballets are best viewed from the mezzanine, where all the nuances of complex pas are clearly visible.

On average, the price of tickets for an opera or ballet in the main building of the theater is:

350-1000 RUB for a place on the 3rd tier;
1500-2000 RUB for a place on the 2nd tier;
1700-2500 RUB per seat on the 1st tier;
2000-3000 RUB for a mezzanine seat;
2800-3400 RUB for a seat in the stalls.

The box office of the theater is open from 11.00 to 18.30 (in Concert Hall- until 19.00).

How to get there

You can get to the St. Petersburg "Temple of the Muses" in the following ways:

From the metro stations "Gostiny Dvor" or "Nevsky Prospekt" by minibuses No. 169 and 180, as well as bus routes No. 27, 22, 3.
From Spasskaya, Sennaya Ploshchad or Sadovaya metro stations by minibuses No. 350, 186, 124, 1.
Walk one stop from St. Nicholas Church to the theater.

The performances of the Mariinsky Theater are a great opportunity to join the world high art and broaden your horizons.

St. Petersburg - place of birth musical theater Russia. Court opera and ballet performances of the Petrovsky capital were already given in the 30s of the 18th century. Built in 1783 The Bolshoi Theatre Petersburg, and in 1860 - Mariinsky (created according to the project of the outstanding theater architect A. Kavos and named after the reigning Empress Maria Alexandrovna, wife of Alexander II). In 1935 - 1992 bore the name of S.M. Kirov. The world premieres of many masterpieces of Russian opera classics took place on this stage. Among them are "Life for the Tsar" and "Ruslan and Lyudmila" by Glinka, "Boris Godunov" and "Khovanshchina" by Mussorgsky, "Prince Igor" by Borodin, "The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia" by Rimsky-Korsakov, "The Queen of Spades" P.I. Tchaikovsky. An original Russian vocal school was formed at the Mariinsky Theatre. The fate of many stars of world opera art is inextricably linked with him. The great Fyodor Chaliapin and Ivan Ershov, Nikolai Figner, Leonid Sobinov and Felia Litvin sang on this stage, and in subsequent years - Nikolai Pechkovsky, Sofia Preobrazhenskaya, Mark Reizen, Georgy Nelepp. The Marinsky Theater has always been characterized by reverence towards classical traditions. At the same time, performances were held on its stage in the 20th century, which became epochal, milestone for the development of a new aesthetics. opera house. Here Alexander Benois, Konstantin Korovin, Alexander Golovin and Valentin Serov opened up new opportunities for theatrical painting to the world. Here Vsevolod Meyerhold staged his brilliant performances, each of which became an artistic phenomenon, which is of interest to the world to this day.

The repertoire of the theater includes works of the "golden fund" of opera classics. In recent years, the theater has carried out joint productions with major opera scenes world: Covent Garden, Opera de Bastille, La Scala, La Fenice, Tel Aviv and San Francisco Operas.

Opera Madama Butterfly(Cio-Cio-San) G. Puccini
July 27, 2017
Main Stage of the Mariinsky Theater

This performance is true piece of art! Delightful Japanese aesthetic sustained in everything and in every little thing.

The Czech team of artists and director brilliantly coped with the task of translating subtle, harmonious and minimalistic Japanese taste. Every scene is impeccably balanced artistic composition according to the ratio of colors, shapes and washed away, which they carry. If the play didn't have great music by Puccini and talented vocal performance, the organization of the space itself, the costumes of the characters, the movement of scenery objects on the stage, ideally adjusted in terms of the speed and time of their appearance, would be alone capable of charm and immerse in subtle world of feng shui art. I would especially like to note the scenes of the arrival of boats with the bride in the first act and quietly sliding boat - there is no doubt that on the water (!)- at the conclusion of the second act.

Played the title role Victoria Yastrebova and she was absolutely incomparable! Great acting game accurately conveying gestures and movements fragile, young, silent, tender and loving Japanese girl. And the singer expresses all the same in her voice, in surprisingly tremulous singing! Don't doubt her for a second. sincerity. how many compassion, tenderness this heroine calls! And absolutely stunning wholeness, purity and fortitude.

According to the impression that remains after the performance, we can say that this is not just a performance, but some kind of religious and mystical symbolic drama, mystery. Dipping deep into it you are imbued with a subtle spiritual trembling, the energy of a whole spirit and leave the theater with a feeling of fullness, renewal and purification.

In addition, the plot of the performance (those who wish can read on their own on the Internet) interesting from the historical, cultural and political points of view. So, main character American Pinkerton (in a wonderful performance Dmitry Voropaev) embodies the predatory, predatory spirit of the Western world. One of his remarks is very eloquent: “After all, life would be insignificant if you didn’t pick flowers wherever possible”. And the fragile, meek, full of tenderness Madama Butterfly, embodies the natural, not yet “civilized” world, and, wanting to please the American, renounces her own faith, which leads to a break with relatives and, as if between the lines, with herself , blocking all paths back. But still, closeness to nature and primordial religion nurtured in her wholesome and courageous spirit, which was expressed in the last dying remark of the heroine: "He who cannot live with honor must die with honor" .

This is a performance that makes you want to learn Italian and buy tickets to the stalls for it again!