News
2015
22
January
The Mikhailovsky Theatre Chamber Orchestra is to continue its series of concerts in the plush interior of the dress circle foyer. The programme includes a cycle of four concerts and will see performances of German chamber music from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the baroque compositions of Purcell and Schnittke, works by Italian composers, and performances of the Viennese greats.
13
January
The Mikhailovsky Theatre will commemorate its upcoming premiere of Bizet’s opera to the best performer of Carmen ever, Elena Obraztsova. The performance will be staged in November of this year. Conductor Dmitri Jurowski and director Andriy Zholdak are currently working on the production.
2014
26
December
Dear friends, from now on you will need to register on the Mikhailovsky website to purchase e-tickets.
18
December
Sales of new format e-tickets through the theatre’s website commenced on 18 December. Now, as an alternative to printing your tickets, you can show them to the usher directly from your mobile phone or tablet.
16
December
The Friends Club held its New Year celebration on 15 December at the Mikhailovsky Theatre.
05
December
On 9 December, maestro Teodor Currentzis will present the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre’s production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte as part of the Golden Mask Festival in St. Petersburg.
03
December
No other Russian opera has ever suffered so many concerted attempts to replace the original with a variety of different versions and, at the same time, such great efforts to return to the composer’s original concept.
03
December
Maestro Vladimir Jurowski is rehearsing a unique project to be performed at the Mikhailovsky Theatre on 3 and 4 January 2015: Boris the Tsar, a musical and literary production based on Modest Mussorgsky’s first version of Boris Godunov and historical texts by Nikolay Karamzin.
18
November
As part of the Diaghilev P.S. Festival, an exhibition marking the 110th anniversary of George Balanchine’s birth will open in the Mikhailovsky Theatre’s Fireplace Hall on 29 November.
14
November
Rehearsals of Il trovatore go on directly on the Theater stage.
14
November
The nominations for Russia’s leading theatre awards for the 2013/14 season have been announced in Moscow.
06
November
Director Dmitri Tcherniakov and his assistant Thorsten Cölle have spent several weeks at the originally designed rehearsal space at Lenexpo.
