Saturday, 27 July 2024, 6 p.m.

'The Queen of Spades' opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

in the Courtyard of the Catherine Palace

The free performance will be the final show of the 13th St Petersburg International Festival All Together Opera, commemorating poet Alexander Pushkin's 225th birth anniversary.

The Northern Symphony orchestra of the Fyodor Shalyapin Musical Theatre, conducted by Fabio Mastrangelo (“the most famous Italian in Russian music circles today”).

Staging and production design by Ilya Arkhipov, choreography by Nikita Boris.

Choir and soloists of the Fyodor Shalyapin Musical Theatre. Soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre, the Sankt Peterburg' Opera Theatre and the Looking Glass Musical Theatre.

The 13th St Petersburg International Festival All Together Opera is organized by the St Petersburg Culture Committee, the Fyodor Shalyapin Musical Theatre and the non-profit partnership for cultural projects 21st Century Art.