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 16

ALEXANDRINSKY The "Rock Opera Theater" performs "Razin."

BALTIISKY DOM British musician Peter Hamill and his band.

BOLSHOY DRAMA E O'Neill's "Under the Elms."

GLINKA CAPPELLA "Musical Spring-95 in St Petersburg" festival. The Cappella choir performs Chalayev, Grechaninov and Dyachenko.

LITEINY The Kazan Youth Theater performs "The Storm."

SHOSTAKOVICH The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, Concerto No 2 for piano, and the "Leonora" overture.

SMALL HALL Vocalist N Semyonova performs Tchaikovsky and Verdi.


WEDNESDAY, MAY 17

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) B Johnson's "The Alchemists."

BALTIISKY DOM (11am) E Chepovetsky and L Cherkassky's "The Adventures of Captain Vrungel."

BOLSHOY DRAMA Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard."

LITEINY The "Farce" theater performs.

MOLODYOZHNY N Sadur's "Moon Wolves."

MUSSORGSKY Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov."

SHOSTAKOVICH The "St Petersburg Mozart Orchestra" performs Mozart.

SMALL HALL "Musical Spring-95 in St Petersburg" festival


THURSDAY, MAY 18

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) E Schwartz' "The Shadow."

ALEXANDRINSKY The Tver Drama Theater performs Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina."

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

MOLODYOZHNY "At Midnight in the Renaissance..."

MUSICAL COMEDY E Ptichkin's "Women's Revolt."

MUSSORGSKY Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet."

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

SHOSTAKOVICH German organist V Schtokmayer performs Bach, Mozart, Liszt and others.

SMALL HALL Pianist G Sokolov performs.


FRIDAY, MAY 19

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."

BOLSHOY DRAMA Shakespeare's "Macbeth."

BRYANTSEVA Exupery's "The Little Prince."

LITEINY A Tigai's "The Kremlin Chimes, or Come to Us in a Few Years..."

MUSICAL COMEDY I Kalman's "Maritsa."

MUSSORGSKY Rimsky-Korsakov's "Fairytale about the Emperor Saltan."

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

SHOSTAKOVICH Musicians from the Philharmonic Orchestra perform.

SMALL HALL German cellist M Schlechstrim performs.


SATURDAY, MAY 20

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) "Can I Hope?" theatrical fantasy based on the works of Chekhov.

ALEXANDRINSKY (6pm) The Tver Drama Theater performs Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina."

BOLSHOY DRAMA C Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers."

MARIINSKY Shostakovich's "Katerina Izmailova."

MOLODYOZHNY A Ostrovsky's "The Storm."

MUSICAL COMEDY F Herve's "Mademoiselle Nitouche."

MUSSORGSKY Evening of ballet by Tchaikovsky, including "Serenade," "Swan Lake" and "Themes and Variations."

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

PUPPET (11:30am, 2pm) "The Golden Chick."

RAIN A Chekhov's "The Seagull."

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (6pm) Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Tsar's Bride."

SHOSTAKOVICH Musicians from the Philharmonic Orchestra perform.

SMALL HALL "Musical Spring-95 in St Petersburg" festival


SUNDAY, MAY 21

BOLSHOY DRAMA A Ostrovsky's "Homer Sometimes Nods."

LITEINY A Kozlovsky's "The Vampire."

MOLODYOZHNY "Music was Heard in the Garden."

MUSSORGSKY (noon) Levenshold's "Les Sylphides." (7pm) Puccini's "La Boheme."

OTKRYTY A Nikolai's "Love Until Death."

RAIN A Chekhov's "The Seagull."

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (6pm) Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Tsar's Bride."

SMALL HALL "Musical Spring-95 in St Petersburg" festival


MONDAY, MAY 22

MARIINSKY Shostakovich's "Katerina Izmailova."

MUSSORGSKY Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin."

SHOSTAKOVICH The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra performs Stankevich, Prokofiev and others.

SMALL HALL Yugoslavian pianist M Evtich performs.


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