Maria Korablyova


Choreographer and movement director

Maria Korablyova was born in Leningrad. She graduated from the Vaganova Leningrad Academic Choreographic School, the Cherkasov St Petersburg State Institute of Theatre, Music and Film, and completed her postgraduate studies at St Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy.

Has contributed to productions of Moscow’s Lenkom Theatre (The Dancing Master), St Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Theatre (Rusalka), the St Petersburg Theatre of Musical Comedy (Sevastopol Waltz, Wiener Blut, Der Graf von Luxemburg, Die Fledermaus), St Petersburg’s Komissarzhevskaya Academic Drama Theatre (Theatre after Maugham’s novel, Polyphony, Three Fools, Three Roads, Three Souls (3D), I Returned to My City…) and Baltic House Theatre-Festival (Odyssey, The Taming of the Shrew, Zoshchenko Zoshchenko Zoshchenko Zoshchenko, Dreams of the White Nights, Witness for the Prosecution, The Golden Cockerel, Belugin’s Marriage, Rock ’n’ Roll at Sunset, The Chronicles of a Slacker). She also collaborated with St Petersburg’s Open Space Theatre (La casa de Bernarda Alba, Biloxi Blues, Girls), the Old House Novosibirsk State Drama Theatre (Pulcinella), the Ostrovsky Kostroma State Drama Theatre (A Profitable Position, The Twelve Chairs, musical Faust) and the Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theatre (What Is to Be Done?).

At the Mariinsky Theatre Maria Korablyova worked as the choreographer of Nabucco (2023) and as the assistant movement director of Iolanta (2023), I puritani (2024) and renewed – for the Concert Hall – versions of I vespri siciliani (2024) and A Life for the Tsar (2025).

She has also taken part in film and television productions.

Associate Professor of the Acting Department at the St Petersburg State University of Film and Television.

Nominee for Latvia’s highest theatre award Spēlmaņu Nakts (“Performers’ Night”).
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