Apparently Dracula doesn’t need to turn into a bat to fly. Bram Stoker‘s Count is returning to the ice in Dracula: The Story of Eternal Love, a Gothic musical that combines the familiar vampire story with professional figure skating, aerial gymnastics, fire, elaborate costumes and large-scale visual effects.
The next announced performance takes place March 16, 2027, at Alexela Kontserdimaja in Tallinn, Estonia. The production follows Jonathan Harker as he leaves his fiancée Mina and travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, before bringing Mina, Lucy, Van Helsing and an assortment of vampires onto the ice.
And despite the 2027 date, Dracula on Ice isn’t a new idea. The production was created by St. Petersburg-based Ice Vision Productions and received its world premiere in Romania in April 2016, where its featured skating stars included Surya Bonaly, Tomáš Verner and Philippe Candeloro. It has subsequently traveled internationally and was performed again in Bucharest as recently as November 2025.
Dracula With Triple Jumps
This isn’t simply Stoker performed while everyone happens to be wearing skates. The Story of Eternal Love has been designed as a full-scale spectacle. Previous presentations have combined professional skating with aerial gymnastics, fire juggling, interactive scenery, video projections and dramatic lighting. The skating itself has included lifts, death spirals and triple jumps, while the supernatural spectacle has featured fog, red vapor, flying vampires and even fire on the ice.
The production also has an original score by St. Petersburg composer Alexei Galinsky, whose credits include music associated with the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
For the Tallinn production, there’s one additional twist: technically, Dracula won’t be skating on ice at all. The venue says the performance will use environmentally friendly synthetic ice. It will be performed in English with Estonian subtitles and is recommended for audiences 16 and older.
Considering how many times Dracula has been reinvented since 1897—as horror, romance, comedy, ballet, musical and just about everything in between—perhaps the strangest thing about Dracula on Ice is that it somehow makes perfect sense.