You Can Pay Online   242th Season Welcome - Already a member? [Sign In] | [My cart ] | [My Account] [Help] Schedule and tickets Stars of the White Nights Company About the theatre News ScheduleMain StageNew StageRepertoire Mariinsky Schedule for December 2017 2025 Season Playbill for: July 2025 August 2025 September 2025 October 2025 November - December 2025 November 2025 December 2025 More Type of performance: BalletOperaAll events     See schedule archive <<< November December 2017 January 2018 >>> 1 December Friday 2017 Main Stage 19:00 Prince Igor (Borodin) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:30 Evening of one-act ballets to the music of Igor Stravinsky: Apollo. Rubies (Stravinsky) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 Gala concert of prize-winners of XI International Rimsky-Korsakov Competition Concert Hall. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 2 December Saturday 2017 Main Stage 13:00 The Story of Kai and Gerda (Banevich) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Main Stage 19:30 L`elisir d`amore (Love Drink) (Donizetti) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:30 "The Nutcracker" (ballet in three acts with an epilogue) (Tchaikovsky, Ch: Petipa / Simonov) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Concert Hall 12:00 The Magical World of Opera Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 Concert Hall 17:00 Music lesson-concert for children aged 6-10 "The Little Prince" Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 3 December Sunday 2017 Main Stage 12:00 The Story of Kai and Gerda (Banevich) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Main Stage 20:00 Ruggero Leoncavallo "Pagliacci" (opera in two acts and a prologue) (Leoncavallo) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 13:00 Peter Tchaikovsky "The Nutcracker" (ballet in two acts) (Tchaikovsky, Ch: Petipa / Simonov / Yakobson) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Ballet Company: The Saint-Petersburg State Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:30 "The Nutcracker" (ballet in three acts with an epilogue) (Tchaikovsky, Ch: Petipa / Simonov) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Concert Hall 12:00 The Magical World of Opera Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 Concert of the Grammy Winners: Ensembe "Moscow Soloists" and Conductor Maestro Yury Bashmet Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 4 December Monday 2017 Concert Hall 19:00 Behzod Abduraimov recital (piano) Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 5 December Tuesday 2017 Main Stage 19:30 Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky, Ch: Ivanov / Petipa / Sergeyev) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:00 A life for the Tsar (Glinka) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 Rodion Shchedrin "Not only love" (opera in 3 acts) Concert Hall. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 6 December Wednesday 2017 Main Stage 19:00 Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky, Ch: Ivanov / Petipa / Sergeyev) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:00 Peter Tchaikovsky "Eugene Onegin" (Opera in 3 Acts) (Tchaikovsky) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 Christmas Jazz Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 7 December Thursday 2017 Main Stage 19:00 Evening of one-act ballets by Michel Fokine. One act ballets: Chopiniana. Le Spectre de la Rose. The Swan. Carnaval (Berlioz / Chopin / Glazunov / Maria Fon Weber / Saint-Saens / Schumann, Ch: Fokine) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:00 Peter Tchaikovsky "Eugene Onegin" (Opera in 3 Acts) (Tchaikovsky) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 Sibelius. Rautavaara Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 8 December Friday 2017 Main Stage 19:30 "The Nutcracker" (ballet in three acts with an epilogue) (Tchaikovsky, Ch: Petipa / Vaynonen) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:00 Attila (Verdi) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 Umberto Giordano "Fedora" opera in three acts (concert performance) Concert Hall. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 9 December Saturday 2017 Main Stage 13:00 Igor Stravinsky "Le Rossignol" (opera in three acts) (Stravinsky) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Main Stage 19:00 Le Nozze di Figaro (opera buffa in four acts) (Amadeus Mozart) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 13:00 Georges Bizet - Rodion Shchedrin "Carmen Suite" one-act ballet (Bizet / Shchedrin, Ch: Alonso) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:00 Evening of one-act ballets: Carmen Suite. Le Jardin anime, scene from the ballet Le Corsaire (Adam / Bizet / Delibes / Drigo / Shchedrin, Ch: Alonso) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Concert Hall 13:00 Engelbert Humperdinck "Hansel und Gretel" opera in three acts (concert performance) (Humperdinck) Concert Hall. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 Tchaikovsky. Bernstein Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 10 December Sunday 2017 Main Stage 12:00 "The Nutcracker" (ballet in three acts with an epilogue) (Tchaikovsky, Ch: Petipa / Vaynonen) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Main Stage 19:00 Giselle (fantasy ballet in two acts) (Adam, Ch: Coralli / Perrot / Petipa) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 14:00 A Christmas Tale (Shchedrin) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:00 A Christmas Tale (Shchedrin) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 14:00 Masterpieces at all times Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 Yevgeny Akimov jubilee concert Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 11 December Monday 2017 Main Stage 19:30 Ruggero Leoncavallo "Pagliacci" (opera in two acts and a prologue) (Leoncavallo) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:00 Le Corsaire (Adam / Delibes / Drigo / Pugni, Ch: Gusev / Petipa) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 The Symphonica ARTica symphony orchestra Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 12 December Tuesday 2017 Main Stage 19:00 Peter Tchaikovsky "Eugene Onegin" (Opera in 3 Acts) (Tchaikovsky) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 Vincenzo Bellini "Pirate" melodrama in two acts (concert performance) Concert Hall. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 13 December Wednesday 2017 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:00 Le Corsaire (Adam / Delibes / Drigo / Pugni, Ch: Gusev / Petipa) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 George Frideric Handel. The Messiah Concert Hall. Concert Conductor: Andrei Petrenko $0 0 14 December Thursday 2017 Main Stage 19:00 Modest Mussorgsky "Boris Godunov" (Mussorgsky) Main Stage. Opera Conductor: Dmitry Ralko Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:00 "The Little Humpbacked Horse" ballet in three acts (Shchedrin, Ch: Ratmansky) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 Lucas Debargue recital (piano) Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 15 December Friday 2017 Main Stage 19:00 The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Asafiev, Ch: Zakharov) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:30 Il trovatore (opera in four acts ) (Verdi) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Conductor: Mikhail Sinkevich Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 Rodion Shchedrin "Boyar Morozova" Russian choral opera in 2 parts (Shchedrin) Concert Hall. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 16 December Saturday 2017 Main Stage 12:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Der Schauspieldirektor". Comedy with music in one act (Amadeus Mozart) Main Stage. Opera in 1 act Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Main Stage 19:00 La forza del destino (Verdi) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 13:00 Il trovatore (opera in four acts ) (Verdi) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Conductor: Mikhail Sinkevich Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 20:00 "The Little Humpbacked Horse" ballet in three acts (Shchedrin, Ch: Ratmansky) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Concert Hall 16:00 Rarely-performed piano concerti Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 Concert Hall 20:00 Ignat Solzhenitsyn recital (piano) Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 17 December Sunday 2017 Main Stage 12:00 The Story of Kai and Gerda (Banevich) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Main Stage 19:00 "The Nutcracker" (ballet in three acts with an epilogue) (Tchaikovsky, Ch: Petipa / Vaynonen) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 12:00 "The Little Humpbacked Horse" ballet in three acts (Shchedrin, Ch: Ratmansky) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 20:00 Rigoletto (Maria Piave / Verdi) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 12:00 Stravinsky. Soldier Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 Stravinsky-135 Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 18 December Monday 2017 Main Stage 19:00 Giselle (fantasy ballet in two acts) (Adam, Ch: Coralli / Perrot / Petipa) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 The Renaissance Percussion Ensemble Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 19 December Tuesday 2017 Main Stage 19:00 "The Nutcracker" (ballet in three acts with an epilogue) (Tchaikovsky, Ch: Petipa / Vaynonen) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 18:00 Hector Berlioz "Les Troyens" (grand opera in 5 acts) (Berlioz) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 La finta giardiniera Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 20 December Wednesday 2017 Main Stage 19:00 The Gambler (Opera in Four Acts) (Prokofiev) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:30 Peter Tchaikovsky "The Nutcracker" (ballet in two acts) (Tchaikovsky, Ch: Petipa / Simonov / Yakobson) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Ballet Company: The Saint-Petersburg State Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 Silver flute. An evening of flute music. Concert Hall. Concert Conductor: Ivan Stolbov $0 0 21 December Thursday 2017 Main Stage 18:00 Ruslan and Lyudmila (Glinka) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:00 Evening of one-act ballets: Carmen Suite. Marguerite and Armand. (Bizet / Shchedrin, Ch: Alonso) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 Nikolai Lugansky recital (piano) Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 22 December Friday 2017 Main Stage 19:30 Don Quixote (Minkus, Ch: Anisimova / Gorsky / Petipa) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:00 Salome (Strauss) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera in 1 act Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 Stephen Kovacevich recital (piano) Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 23 December Saturday 2017 Main Stage 13:00 La Sylphide (von Lovenskjold, Ch: Bournonville) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Main Stage 19:00 La Sylphide (von Lovenskjold, Ch: Bournonville) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 15:00 A Christmas Tale (Shchedrin) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:30 Conducted by Maestro Gergiev A Christmas Tale (Shchedrin) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 16:00 Conducted by Maestro Gergiev Beatrice Rana (piano) Beethoven Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 Concert Hall 20:00 Konstantin Lifschitz recital (piano) Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 24 December Sunday 2017 Main Stage 11:30 The Story of Kai and Gerda (Banevich) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Main Stage 19:00 Don Quixote (Minkus, Ch: Anisimova / Gorsky / Petipa) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 15:00 Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 20:00 Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea) Conducted by Maestro Gergiev Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 15:00 Conducted by Maestro Gergiev. Marking the anniversary of Rodion Shchedrin World piano star Denis Matsuev Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 Concert Hall 20:00 The piano duo Korolyov Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 25 December Monday 2017 Main Stage 19:00 Stars of the Stars Evening of one-act ballets by Michel Fokine: Chopiniana. Le Spectre de la Rose. The Swan. Shakhrazade (Berlioz / Chopin / Glazunov / Maria Fon Weber / Saint-Saens / Schumann, Ch: Fokine) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:30 Conducted by Maestro Gergiev N. Rimsky-Korsakov "The Tsars Bride" (Opera in concert in four acts) (Rimsky-Korsakov) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 20:00 Concert by Sergei Babayans class Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 26 December Tuesday 2017 Main Stage 20:00 Faust (opera in five acts) (Gounod) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:00 Le Corsaire (Adam / Delibes / Drigo / Pugni, Ch: Gusev / Petipa) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Concert Hall 18:00 Prokofiev. Scriabin Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 27 December Wednesday 2017 Main Stage 19:00 "The Nutcracker" (ballet in three acts with an epilogue) (Tchaikovsky, Ch: Petipa / Vaynonen) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 18:00 Conducted by Maestro Gergiev Don Carlo (Verdi) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 19:00 Concert by Sergei Babayans class Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 28 December Thursday 2017 Main Stage 19:00 "The Nutcracker" (ballet in three acts with an epilogue) (Tchaikovsky, Ch: Petipa / Vaynonen) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:30 Conducted by Maestro Gergiev The Lefthander (Shchedrin) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 18:00 Pierre-Laurent Aimard recital (piano) Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 Concert Hall 21:00 Teodor Currentzis. Shostakovichs Leningrad Symphony Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 29 December Friday 2017 Main Stage 19:00 La Boheme (opera in four acts) (Puccini) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 20:00 Conducted by Maestro Gergiev Simon Boccanegra (Verdi) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 18:00 Debussy. Ravel Conducted by Maestro Gergiev Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 30 December Saturday 2017 Main Stage 12:00 The Story of Kai and Gerda (Banevich) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Main Stage 19:00 Aida (Verdi) Main Stage. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 14:00 Anna Karenina (ballet in two acts after the novel by Lev Tolstoy) (Shchedrin, Ch: Ratmansky) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 19:30 Anna Karenina (ballet in two acts after the novel by Lev Tolstoy) (Shchedrin, Ch: Ratmansky) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Concert Hall 12:00 Dmitry Masleyev recital (piano) Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 Concert Hall 15:00 Zarina Shimanskaya recital (piano) Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 Concert Hall 20:00 Shostakovich. Mozart. Vine Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 31 December Sunday 2017 Main Stage 12:00 "The Nutcracker" (ballet in three acts with an epilogue) (Tchaikovsky, Ch: Petipa / Vaynonen) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Main Stage 18:00 "The Nutcracker" (ballet in three acts with an epilogue) (Tchaikovsky, Ch: Petipa / Vaynonen) Main Stage. Ballet Company: Mariinsky Ballet $0 0 Mariinsky II (New Theatre) 18:00 Conducted by Maestro Gergiev A Christmas Tale (Shchedrin) Mariinsky II (New Theatre). Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 Concert Hall 14:00 Encore! Concert Hall. Concert $0 0 Concert Hall 18:00 Engelbert Humperdinck "Hansel und Gretel" opera in three acts (concert performance) (Humperdinck) Concert Hall. Opera Company: Mariinsky Opera $0 0 <<< November December 2017 January 2018 >>> Playbill for: July 2025 August 2025 September 2025 October 2025 November - December 2025 November 2025 December 2025 More Type of performance: BalletOperaAll events     See schedule archive Ticket service [email protected] Schedule and tickets | Company | About the theatre | News | Help & Policies | Contacts Mariinsky Theatre: 1 Theatre Square St. Petersburg Mariinsky-2 (New Theatre): 34 Dekabristov Street St. Petersburg Mariinsky Concert Hall: 20 Pisareva street St. Petersburg