Musical Petersburg. All Opera and Ballet Scenes of the Northern Capital

A book about the musical classics of Petersburg in a convenient format – a three-hundred-year history of opera and ballet that can accompany you on your walks around the city. Immerse yourself in the life of the imperial and Soviet bohemia of the “Northern Venice”: what experiments did Shostakovich stage at the Mikhailovsky Theatre? What productions, besides “Red Giselle”, exalted Boris Eifman and breathed new life into Russian ballet? And how did the Lutheran Church in the city center become a venue not only for symphonic but also for rock music? All the main details about the creative life of St. Petersburg.