EVENTS

* Performances start at 7pm unless otherwise stated. All performances, except operas and concerts, are in Russian; operas and concerts in original language unless otherwise stated. Events courtesy of the Institute for Cultural Programs.


TUESDAY, MAY 9

AKIMOVA B Ratser and V Constantinov's "Architect of Victory."

ALEXANDRINSKY Season finale concert and show.

BALTIISKY DOM (6pm) V Voinovich's "Ivan Chonkin."

BOLSHOY DRAMA B Ratser and V Constantinov's "The Meddler in the Nobility," based on a comedy by Moliere.

LITEINY B Shaw's "Catherine the Great."

MARIINSKY L Minkus' "Don Quixote."

MOLODYOZHNY R Ibrahimbekov's "The Touch."

MUSSORGSKY (noon) R Shchedrin's "The Humpbacked Horse." (7pm) Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker." (7pm) Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin."

OTKRYTY S Alexeyevich's "If I Live Through the Summer..."

SHOSTAKOVICH (4pm) Concert in honor of the 50-year anniversary of the end of WWII. Young musicians from local music schools perform.

SMALL HALL The Hermitage Orchestra and "St Petersburg Camerata" perform Shostakovich in honor of the 50-year anniversary of the end of WWII.


WEDNESDAY, MAY 10

AKIMOVA "Can I Hope...?" theatrical fantasy based on the works of Chekhov.

ALEXANDRINSKY The State Academic Theater performs "Choreographic Miniatures."

BALTIISKY DOM V Voinovich's "Ivan Chonkin."

MARIINSKY Mozart's "The Magic Flute."

MOLODYOZHNY R Ibrahimbekov's "The Touch."

OTKRYTY B Ratser and V Constantinov's "The Divine Dandelion."

SMALL HALL Gala concert of St Petersburg guitarists.


THURSDAY, MAY 11

AKIMOVA A Daudet's "The Tartar from Taraskon."

ALEXANDRINSKY The State Academic Theater performs "Choreographic Miniatures."

BOLSHOY DRAMA F Schiller's "Trickery and Love."

CHILDREN'S PHILHARMONIA (2:30pm) "Music is a serious game." Lecturer I Levant.

KOMMISARZHEVSKOY The Folk Theater of Bitola, Mecedonia performs "Notre Dame de Paris."

MARIINSKY L Minkus' "La Bayadere."

MOLDYOZHNY A Griboyedov, N Khmelnitsky and A Shakhovskoy's "My Family, or the Married Fiancee."

MUSSORGSKY Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."

OTKRYTY G Letres' "The Little One."

SHOSTAKOVICH The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Radio Choir and Children's Radio Choir perform.

SMALL HALL "Meetings with Musicians" series. I Arkhipova performs Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.

SMOLNY (6:30pm) Charitable concert for veterans of WWII and blockade survivors. The Smolny Chamber Choir performs.


FRIDAY, MAY 12

AKIMOVA E de Filippo's "Filumena Marturano."

ALEXANDRINSKY The "Rock-Opera" Theater performs "Yunona and Avos."

BOLSHOY DRAMA B Ratser and V Constantinov's "The Meddler in the Nobility," based on a comedy by Moliere.

BRYANTSEVA P Maar's "Week of Saturdays."

KOMMISARZHEVSKOY The Folk Theater of Bitola, Mecedonia performs "Twelfth Night."

MARIINSKY D Verdi's "La Traviata."

MUSICAL COMEDY F Legar's "The Merry Widow."

MUSSORGSKY D Verdi's "La Traviata."

OTKRYTY J Cocteau's "The Double-Headed Eagle."

SMALL HALL Concert in the 31st international "Musical Spring-95 in St Petersburg" festival. Pianist E Bolkvadze performs Beethoven, Berg, Ravel and others.


SATURDAY, MAY 13

ALEXANDRINSKY The "Rock-Opera" Theater performs "Yunona and Avos." (6pm)

BOLSHOY DRAMA Shakespeare's "Macbeth."

CHILDREN'S MUSICAL THEATER (11am, 2pm) Stravinsky's "Fairy tale of a Fugitive Soldier and the Devil."

GLINKA CAPPELLA The Cappella Symphony Orchestra perfomrs Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23.

KOMMISARZHEVSKOY M Tikamatsu's "Lovers' Suicide on the Island of Heaven."

MARIINSKY Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."

MOLODYOZHNY "Music Sounded in the Garden."

MUSICAL COMEDY I Strauss' "The Waltz King."

MUSSORGSKY Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet."

OTKRYTY (6pm) B Ratser and V Constantinov's "The Divine Dandelion."

PUPPET (11:30am, 2pm) "Stranger with a Tail."

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (6pm) "Russian Ballet of the Silver Age," Program 1.

SHOSTAKOVICH The "Classica" State Symphony Orchestra performs Liszt, Ravel and Turkina.

SMALL HALL (3pm) Young musicians from Children's Music School No. 5 perform. (7pm) Evening of modern chamber music. The "Modern" ensemble performs Kasparov, Goldman and others.

SMOLNY (6:30pm) Piano evening. Y and M Rumyantsev perform Skryabin, Schubert, Chopin and Liszt.


SUNDAY, MAY 14

ALEXANDRINSKY (6pm) The "Rock-Opera" Theater performs "Jesus Christ, Superstar."

CHAMBER HALL (4pm) "Eternal Beloved" concert.

CHILDREN'S MUSICAL THEATER (11am, 2pm) V Vysotsky's "The Witch of Lefortovo."

GLINKA CAPPELLA (3pm) Closing concert of Choir collectives. (7pm) Organ evening. O Kinyaev performs Bach, Reger and Messian.

KOMMISARZHEVSKOY M Tikamatsu's "Lovers' Suicide on the Island of Heaven."

MARIINSKY (11:30am) Prokofiev's "Love for Three Oranges." (7pm) B Asafiev's "Bakhchisaraisky Fountain."

MOLODYOZHNY Moliere's "Meddler in the Nobility."

MUSICAL COMEDY (noon) A Araratyan's "Fantik! Gav! Gav!" (7pm) I Kalman's "Queen Chardash."

MUSSORGSKY (noon) Lebedev's "The Wizard of the Emerald City." (7pm) Adan's "Giselle."

OTKRYTY S Alexeyevich's "If I Live Through the Summer..."

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (6pm) "Russian Ballet of the Silver Age," Program 2.

SHOSTAKOVICH Musicians from the Philharmonic perform Petrov, Prokofiev and Stravinsky.

SMALL HALL (3pm) Lecture-concert "Composers to Children." Irina Levant, lecturer. (7pm) Concert in the 31st international "Musical Spring-95 in St Petersburg" festival. Spanish pianist A Pla performs "Ravel - Spain - Petersbug."

SMOLNY (noon) Women's Chamber Choir "Blagovest" performs the traditional Russian songs of Archangelsky, Chesno-kov, Bortnyansky and Chaikovsky.


MONDAY, MAY 15

GLINKA CAPPELLA Concert in the "Musical Spring-95 in St Petersburg" festival. Boys choir perfomrs Belov, Slonimsky and others.

LITEINY The Kazan Youth Theater performs "Burya."

MUSSORGSKY Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades."

OTKRYTY (Small stage) "Territory Theater" performs "I'm Also Waiting..."

SHOSTAKOVICH The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, Second Piano Concerto and "Leonora" overture.


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