MariInsk:St. Petersburg, Russia The Mariinsky Theatre in Petersburg is a historic opera and ballet theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, and one of the symbols of Russian culture. All operas by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky were premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre and its predecessor, the Bolshoi Theatre.

From the beginning of the 18th century at the Russian court there was A ballet company from Italy performed. The original ballet and opera theater in St. Petersburg was a wooden structure. In addition, there was an Ermitage theater outside the Winter Palace, which was used by the Tsar to invite the nobility to the theater. 1783 Ekaterina the Great ordered the construction of a royal opera and ballet theater.

In 1886 the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera Company were all transferred to the Mariinsky Theatre. Most of choreographer Marius Petipa's masterpieces, including The Sleeping Beauty (1890), The Nutcracker (1892), and Swan Lake (1895), were premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre. In addition, many masterpieces by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Ilyich Khachaturyan and others were also premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre. Nikolova, Mikhail Baryshnikov and many others. Famous modern dancers include Svereena Chakanova and others.