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THE MARIINSKY THEATRE. 1783 - 2003. THEME AND VARIATIONS
The exhibition is dedicated to the oldest musical theatre in Russia.
For more than two centuries the historical mission of the Mariinsky Theatre - the cradle of national opera and Russian ballet - has been to discover the new pathways of art. The images, created on this famous stage in the past, became the legends of theatre history. The present day life of the Mariinsky is the definite sign of the renaissance of our culture.
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Sheremetev Palace — Museum of Music
(34 Fontanka emb. Ticket-office phone: 272 44 41)
Branch of St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
This joint project of several museums attempts to rediscover the role of music in Masonry and to examine how their ideology and rite influenced the art. Only a few know that such great musicians as the founder of Impressionism in music C. Debussy, one of the creators of Russian national opera V. Pashkevich, M. Glinka’s friend and sponsor M. Viyel’gorsky, the outstanding virtuoso violinists N. Paganini and L. Spohr (the founder of German violin school of 19th century who introduced the baton in conducting) and O. Bull (the founder of the first Norwegian theatre and the national school of composition) were strong freemasons. They took freemasonry absolutely seriously, not for amusement or for making their careers. More…
Sheremetev Palace — Museum of Music
December 26, 2009 — March 28, 2010
 An exhibition dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Valery Gavrilin is open in Sheremetev palace from December 26. The outstanding musician of the mid 20th century had defined the essence of his creative work: "Music, my very heart and my life, don’t teach the people to live, teach them to love, to suffer and love again, and love again."
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St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
March 13, 2009.
March 13, 2009. The new permanent exhibition «Theatre legends of St Petersburg» has been opened in the former office of the Imperial theatres board, now the main building of the Museum of Theatre and Music at 6 Ostrovsky Sq.
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St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
May 27 — August 30, 2009
May 27, 2009, 4 p.m. The Samoilov family Museum (8 Stremyannaya St.) presents an exhibition of paintings by famous theatre and film actor Yuri Bogatyrev.
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Sheremetev Palace
The exhibition works from Jun 4, 2009 to April 30, 2010.
Now when Shalyapin Museum (his former apartment at Graftio St. where singer lived from 1915 until his departure abroad in 1922) is closed for a restoration its most valuable collection items and details of interior can be seen at Sheremetev Palace.
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Museum of Theatre and Music (Main building)
December 3 v February 1, 2009
The exhibition presents masterpieces from two museums of theatre in Russia v The Bachrushin Central State Theatre Museum (Moscow) and Saint v Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music. The visitors will see famous portraits of Maria Svina, Pelageya Strepetova, Fyodor Shalyapin, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Vazlav Niginsky, Anna Pavlova, Alisa Koonen, costume designs created by Dobyginsky, Bilibin, Sapunov, Sudeikin, Kalmakov, Malevich, Shkolnik, Kulbin, Exter and other participants of the theatre reform which took place at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Museum of Theatre and Music (Main building)
September 25 v October 26, 2008
The exhibition shows the best part of graphics and paintings of the legendary Lobanov-Rostovsky collection purchased by the International Charitable Fund "Konstantinovsky". The exhibits were loaned to the Saint-Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music and will be put on temporary display in September.
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The Museum of Music in the Sheremetev Palace
August 1 – October 30, 2008
Exhibition «Two ballet stages of Russia» is a joint work of Bolshoi Theatre and Saint-Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music. The sponsors of the exhibition aimed to reveal the originality of two leading ballet troupes and for the first time show different objects from two collections.
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The Museum of Music in the Sheremetev Palace Branch of St.Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
April 24 – June 31 2008
The opening ceremony for journalists and guests April 23 at 5.p.m.
The exhibition is dedicated to the Moscow Art Theatre history. The photo exposition made by photo artist Igor Alexandrov presents the photo journal of the theatre life over the past 50 years.
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The Exhibition "Fyodor Chaliapin in Kazan" is Dedicated to the 135th Anniversary of Birth of the singer.
February 14 - April 13 2008
The opening of the exhibition February 14 at 16 p.m.
The exhibition is held in cooperation with The Literary-Memorial Museum of A.M.Gorky
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The Samoilov Family Museum v the branch of St.Petersburg State Museum of Theatre in Music.
November, 16 v December, 14 2007
The exhibition presents about 50 unknown works of the artist from the collection of the State Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Lithuania. Among them there are sketches, theatre sets for operas, ballets and drama performances created at the Kaunas State Musical Theatre. The whole collection dedicated to M. Dobujinsky in the Lithuanian Museum contains more than 1000 items.
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The Sheremetev Palace - Branch of St.Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music.
34, Naberezhnaya Fontanki. Ticket office: 272 44 41
Alla Osipenko is one of famous classical ballerinas who is spectacularly graceful and much admired for the poetry and dramatic projection of her dancing. In 1950-1970 the excellent artistic style of Osipenko was demanded by contemporary choreographers such as Grigorovich, Igor Belinsky, Igor I Chernishov, Georgy Aleksidze, Boris Eyfman. For many years an eminent choreographer Leonid Jacobson created ballets especially for Alla Osipenko. She is choreographically gifted and she has created her own artistic world and imparted a depth of expression to her interpretation of classical roles. Alla Osipenko has become the face of soviet ballet achievements of the twentieth century. Being behind the Iron Curtain in Russia unlike her celebrity friends in the West she has managed contributed to significant ballet reforms.
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EDVARD GRIEG. ART AND IDENTITY
11 June 2003
The Sheremetev Palace
A travelling exhibition dedicated to the life and creative career of the great Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and his role in the search for national identity.
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- Maria Taglioni in St.Petersburg
- Maya Plisetskaya
- Karsavina and Nijinsky in Stravinsky's ballets
- Images of Russian Theatre
- Russian Theatre Avant-garde
- Theatre. Images and Reliques (1986, Leningrad)
- 100 Years of Russian Ballet (1989 - 1990, New York - Washington DC)
- L'art du ballet en Russie (1991, Paris)
- Arabesque. From Anna Pavlova to Rudolf Nureyev (1994, Milano)
- Boris Anisfeld as Theatre Designer (1994 - 1995 - St.Petersburg, Columbus (USA), in collaboration with Ohio University and Chicago Art Museum)
- P.I.Tchaikovsky (1997, Bologna)
- Creators of Russian Theatre (1997, New York)
- Polyphony. Theatre Designs of Russian Avant-garde" (1998, Milano)
- Spectacular St.Petersburg. 100 Years of Russian Theatre Design" (1999 - 2000, Columbus - San Antonio, USA) )
- Russian Hamlet (2000, in collaboration with the State Hermitage)
- Giuseppe Verdi in Russia (Italy, Bologna, 2001)
- Inspector General at the Hermitage (2002, in collaboration with the State Hermitage).
- The Mariinsky Theatre. 1783 - 2003. Theme and Variations (2003, in collaboration with Russian museum, Ministry of culture and Mariinsky theatre)
Joint exhibition projects:
- A series of international exhibitions, dedicated to the art of Malevich 1988 - 1991
- The Art of Russian Symbolism (1993, Venece)
- Tatlin (1994 - Dusseldorf, Moscow, 1995 - Barcelona)
- Diaghilev. Russian Years" (1996, London)
- Images of Russian Theatre (1997, Japan, in collaboration with the State Russian Museum)
- the World of Art (1998, in collaboration with the State Russian Museum)
- From Russia with Love. Diaghilev ballets (1999, Perth, Canberra, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Hermitage)
- Nikolay Akimov. Towards the centennial" (the State Russian Museum, 2001)
- Genova-St.Petersburg (Italy, Genoa, 2001)
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