The Snow Maiden Tickets

Stanislavsky Music Theatre, Moscow, Russia

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Available Dates: 20 - 21 Feb, 2026 (3 events)

Important Info

Type: Ballet

City: Moscow, Russia

Duration: 2h 5min with 1 interval

Acts: 2

Intervals: 1

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

Can I choose my seats?

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Cast

Performers

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Creators

Composer: Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Choreographer: Vladimir Burmeister

Overview

For over half a century, the ballet has been performed with unfailing success at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, located just 750 metres from the Bolshoi Theatre. Featuring distinguished dancers who have performed on the Bolshoi stage and trained at the same prestigious academies, this production remains one of the most enchanting family ballets in the theatre’s repertoire — equally captivating for children and adults alike.

Often called “Tchaikovsky’s fourth ballet,” The Snow Maiden is a dazzling creation woven from various works by the great composer — including his First Symphony (“Winter Dreams”), Serenade for Strings, a Piano Sonata, several Romances, and music written for Ostrovsky’s play of the same name. Thanks to the masterful selection and orchestration, the score forms a cohesive and beautifully unified whole.

The story of this ballet’s creation is as remarkable as the work itself. In 1960, Vladimir Burmeister became the first Soviet choreographer invited to stage a production at the Paris Opera. While working on Swan Lake, he received an offer from the British Festival Ballet to create another work set to Tchaikovsky’s music — and thus The Snow Maiden was born.

The London premiere took place in the summer of 1961, and in 1963 Burmeister brought The Snow Maiden to his home stage.

Venue Info

Stanislavsky Music Theatre - Moscow
B. Dmitrovka, 17

The Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre is a music theatre in Moscow.

The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre was founded in 1941 when two companies directed by the legendary reformers of twentieth-century theatre — Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko — merged: the Stanislavsky Opera Theatre (established at the end of 1918 as an Opera Studio of the Bolshoi Theatre) and the Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre (set up in 1919 as a Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre).

The new theatre followed the artistic principles of its founders, who applied the system of the Moscow Art Theatre to opera and ballet. Both Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko rejected the current conception of opera as «costume concert». They wanted to bring it closer to drama and comedy, revealing the main idea of the plot through psychologically motivated action. The ballet company entered the Theatre as a part of Nemirovich-Danchenko's troupe. It was the former company of the Moscow Art Ballet, established in 1929 by Victorina Krieger, the valued ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre. She was Artistic Director and one of the principal dancers of the Moscow Art Ballet. Soon after Stanislavsky's death, Nemirovich-Danchenko took charge of all the companies (Vsevolod Meyerhold invited by Stanislavsky to work for his theatre, was arrested in 1939, and no other stage director could prove equal to Nemirovich-Danchenko). Then the theatre was given its present name.