Repertoire

Betrothal in a Monastery

Comic opera in two acts
In the theatre, known for its unusual director's approach, the plot of the Sheridan’s play is interpreted as a funny story about the everlasting conflict of generations, a conflict between academic style and innovation.

Boris Godunov

Musical folk drama in two acts
Yuri Alexandrov created a metaphoric performance where he mixed different eras focusing on how history repeats itself. He draws parallels between the Time of Troubles and the today’s Russia of today, raising the eternal issues of loneliness in power and irreconcilable conflict between the people and the rulers.

Crimea

Opera-rally
A new production of the Opera “Crimea” is a unique play that the artistic Director of "St. Petersburg Opera" Yuri Alexandrov made the author, Director, screenwriter and artist.

Dido and Aeneas

Opera in three acts
IV International Chamber Opera Festival. Production of the Cultural Centre of the Regional Government of Central Macedonia

Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail

Lyrical comedy in two acts
In the challenging labyrinth of the play, the honoured spectator will see not only an exciting funny story about the adventures of young loving each other people in fabulously unpredictable Turkey of the XVIII century. It is lyrical narration of the difficult relationship between Mozart and his wife Constance.

Die Fledermaus

Classical operetta in two acts
“Die Fledermaus” directed by Yuri Alexandrov has won the hearts of the viewers becoming one of the best productions of the company.

Eugene Onegin

Lyrical scenes in seven episodes
The performance by Yuri Alexandrov gives the audience a new look at the familiar plot of the most popular Russian opera. Filled with lots of unusual director’s ideas, the action fascinates the audience with its “not opera-like” dynamism.

Evening Serenade

Concert in two parts
. In the program compositions of European Romantic composers of XIX - early XX century.

Faust

A psychological drama in two parts
Gounod’s opera does not attempt to match the thematic breadth or the philosophical sophistication of Goethe’s sprawling masterpiece, concentrating instead on Faust’s romantic encounter with Marguerite and the tragic results of their liaison.

Gala Donizetti

Concert in two parts
The St. Petersburg Chamber Opera is one of the few Russian theaters that present the work of that brilliant Italian romantic composer in all its diversity. Apart from full-scale performances, the repertoire also includes scenes, arias and duets from the composer’s little-known operas.

Harp Gala

Concert in two parts
The State Chamber Music Theatre “The St. Petersburg Chamber Opera” presents a unique project with best harpers of St. Petersburg. The concert program is diverse not just by the genre but also by its stylish attitude and performers involved.

Harp Gala. Concert Fantasia

Concert in two parts
The State Chamber Music Theatre “The St. Petersburg Chamber Opera” presents a unique project with best harpers of St. Petersburg. The concert program is diverse not just by the genre but also by its stylish attitude and performers involved.

Harp Gala. Virtuosos

Concert in two parts
The State Chamber Music Theatre “The St. Petersburg Chamber Opera” presents a unique project with best harpers of St. Petersburg. The concert program is diverse not just by the genre but also by its stylish attitude and performers involved.

Il barbiere di Siviglia

Comic opera in two acts
The St. Petersburg Chamber Opera for the first time turned to one of the most popular operas by Rossini. The director interpreted the comedy plot as the Italian commedia dell'arte and the company played it brilliantly and with young enthusiasm.

In the light music genre

Concert in two parts
The new St. Petersburg Chamber Opera concert program features popular music.

L'elisir d'amore

Comic opera in two acts
“L'elisir d'amore” is one of most prominent works by Donizetti. Dynamic and rich with beautiful melodies, it has been admired by listeners for more than 170 years, and the composer’s masterpiece Una furtiva lagrima, a romance of Nemorino, belongs to the world’s classical musical heritage.

La bohème

Melodrama with one intermission
The famous Puccini opera is presented by The St. Petersburg Chamber Opera as a story of the tragic conflict between the dream and the life routine. The story is not set in any definite time. It reflects the relationships between a man and a woman that have existed ever since Adam and Eve.

La scala di seta

Farsa comica in one act
IV International Chamber Opera Festival. State Opera and ballet theatre "Astana Opera" (Kazakhstan)

Les cloches de Corneville

Romantic operetta in two acts
Les cloches de Corneville has been praised for its fine melodies, rhythmic variety, good choral writing and complex orchestral colour. The work was translated into several languages and enjoyed numerous productions worldwide.

Les pêcheurs de perles

Opera fantasy in two parts
A thrilling drama of strong passions has been staged by Yuri Alexandrov in an unpredictably modern manner, while expressive acting and subtle interpretation of the roles by the soloists make this performance really unforgettable.

Lucia di Lammermoor

Opera in two acts
The St. Petersburg Chamber Opera offers the audience a modern interpretation of the Gothic drama and opera by Gaetano Donizetti.

L’oca del Cairo, ossia Lo sposo deluso

Pasticcio in two acts with Russian surtitles
IV International Chamber Opera Festival. Production by the Hungarian State Opera

Night of Opera arias and romances

Concert in two parts

‘The drama of human passions’, as Pushkin wrote, in the musical theater finds an incredible power of affection, excites and carries away. The musical masterpieces of the concert program will allow listeners to touch the best pages of the world musical classics.   

Not Only Love

Lyric opera in two acts
The St. Petersburg premiere of “Not Only Love” by the famous composer Rodion Shchedrin was a landmark event. The composer himself described it as the best performance of his opera.

Opera & Operetta

Gala Concert in two parts
Top artists of the St. Petersburg Chamber Opera will present arias and scenes from the most famous operas and operettas .

Opera Gala

Gala concert with a surprise intermission
Opera Gala in the St. Petersburg Chamber Opera is a celebration of music and theater, a parade of young opera stars, and also a fancy-dress procession that amazes us with the variety of styles and its artistic originality.

Paris Mysteries

Concert in two parts
The St. Petersburg Chamber Opera presents a new concert programme featuring masterpieces of French classical music.

Pietro il Grande zar di tutte le Russie

Comic melodrama in two acts
In Russia this Donizetti's masterpiece can only be seen in The St. Petersburg Chamber Opera.

Puss in Boots (with the participation of the Musical and drama theatre “The Blue Bird”)

A fairy-tale for children and their parents with singing and dancing
The charm of the Charles Perrault’s fairy tale, full of tenderness, wittiness and French elegance – this is a new production of the theatre.

Rigoletto

Musical drama in three acts
Yuri Alexandrov’s production boldly destroys the clichés that have developed during centuries of existence of one of Verdi’s most popular operas. The whole production focuses on the image of a mask, that sinister masquerade of life.

Stories of Clorinda, Jephte and Ismène

Opera Baroque of XVII-XVIII centuries
IV International Chamber Opera Festival. Production of Collegium Musicum Riga (Latvia)

The familiar melodies of Italy

Concert in two parts
The new theatre’s concert program features so familiar and loved Italian music.

The Night of Old Russian Romances

Concert in two parts
Old Russian Romance is a wonderful genre. It emerged in the wake of Romanticism trends, and has not lost its popularity until today.

The Night of Romance

A concert in two parts
Luxurious and comfortable hall of the baron von Derviz mansion in which the St. Petersburg Chamber Opera theatre settled, perfectly fits the lyric mood of the Night of Romance.

The Rape of Lucretia

Musical tragedy with one intermission
Turning to the ancient plot in The Rape of Lucretia Benjamin Britten, impressed by the horrors of the Second World War, created the image of his time. Similarly, Yuri Alexandrov, the director of the play, appeals to his own contemporaries.

The Walk on Broadway

Concert in two parts
The St. Petersburg Chamber Opera is happy to invite you to enjoy a walk along the New York Broadway. The company’s young soloists will accompany you, and wonderful music of the well-known Broadway musicals will be your guide.

To remember

Opera-diptych
New performance of the theatre is opera-diptych. The first part of the “The Young guard”, created by the Julian Meytus, the theatre will show for the first time. A complete diptych opera “Crimea” (based on “Sevastopoltsy” by Marian Koval), already familiar to the audience.

Tosca

Opera in three acts
This opera is about everyone who plays, writes and creates, about those who life in both life and art, rather than making a difference between them. It is about the difficult relationship between the artist and the tyrant.

Viva Mozart!

Gala Concert in two parts
The old Baroque theatre will host enchanting music of the great Austrian: symphonic fragments and overtures, arias, duets and scenes from popular Mozart operas as well as rarely performed in Russia.

Viva Strauss!

Gala сoncert in two parts
The St. Petersburg Chamber Opera presents a new concert program Viva Strauss!. The concert program includes famous polkas, marches, quadrilles and the fragments of the most popular operettas of the King of Waltz.