The programme, billed as a "Gala Concert of Ballet, Opera and Musical Stars of St. Petersburg", is the result of cooperation between the Croatian National Theatre and the Mariinsky Theatre, the Mikhailovsky Classical Ballet and Opera Theatre and the Leonid Jakobson Ballet Theatre.
Ballet and opera lovers will have an opportunity to enjoy, among other works, the performances of parts of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Cinderella, Aram Khachaturian's ballet Spartacus, Ludwig Minkus's ballet Don Quixote, Frederic Chopin's ballet Chopiniana, Riccardo Drigo's ballet Le Corsaire, and the musical Dance of the Vampires by Michael Kunze and Jim Steinman.