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 23

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) "Love."

BOLSHOY DRAMA "The History of Horses."

GLINKA CAPPELLA The Cappella Choir and Orchestra perform.

KOMISSARZHEVSKY "The Idiot."

LITEINY "The Kremlin Chimes."

MARIINSKY "Swan Lake."

MOLODYOZHNY "The Death of Van Halen."

OTKRYTY "Mr Freud's Carousel."

PUPPET (11:30am, 2pm) "A Visit with the Hippopotamus."

SHOSTAKOVICH The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven, Prokofiev and Uspensky.

SMALL HALL Violinist I Konovalov performs.


WEDNESDAY, MAY 24

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) "The Tartar from Taraskon."

BALTIISKY DOM The Danish Ballet performs.

BOLSHOY DRAMA "You Get What You Look For."

LITEINY (noon, 2:30pm) "The Jolly History of the `Balamuth' magazine."

MARIINSKY Puccini's "Tosca."

MOLODYOZHNY "La Funfe in der Lufte."

MUSSORGSKY Adan, Pugnis, Delibe and Drigo's "The Corsair."

OTKRYTY "Gusar of the KGB."

SHOSTAKOVICH The Urkhusa Symphony Orchestra (Denmark) performs.


THURSDAY, MAY 25

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) "Blue Sky With Clouds."

BOLSHOY DRAMA "The Noble Nest."

GLINKA CAPPELLA (3pm) Children's choir performs the music of G Fauret.

LITEINY "A City Romance" (premiere).

MARIINSKY "La Bayadere."

MOLODYOZHNY "Tango."

MUSSORGSKY The ballet of Tchaikovsky.

OTKRYTY "You and Only You."

SHOSTAKOVICH The ZKR Academic Symphonic Orchestra performs performs "Mahler, Beethoven and Shostakovich.


FRIDAY, MAY 26

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) "Planet of Love."

ALEXANDRINSKY Evening of the ballet of B Eifman.

BOLSHOY DRAMA "Family Portrait With a Stranger."

LITEINY "The Miser."

MARIINSKY Evening with A Makarov.

MOLODYOZHNY "Ferdinando."

MUSSORGSKY Borodin's "Prince Igor."

OTKRYTY "His Majesty's Adjutant."

SHOSTAKOVICH The ZKR Academic Symphonic Orchestra performs performs "Mahler, Beethoven and Shostakovich.

SMOLNY Traditional Russian ensemble "Zabava" performs


SATURDAY, MAY 27

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) "A Gypsy Woman Told Me..."

BOLSHOY DRAMA C Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers."

GLINKA CAPPELLA Organist O Minkina performs.

KOMISSARZHEVSKY "Antigona in New York."

LITEINY "Catherine the Great."

MARIINSKY Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty."

MOLODYOZHNY "Ferdinando."

MUSICAL COMEDY (2pm, 7pm) Kolker's "Truffaldino."

MUSSORGSKY Mussorgsky's "The Khavanch Affair."

OTKRYTY (6pm) "Samodury."

SHOSTAKOVICH Celebration in honor of 200 years of the public library.

SMOLNY Chamber ensemble "SPB Soloists" performs Haydn, Bach and Vivaldi.


SUNDAY, MAY 28

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) "The Alchemists."

BOLSHOY DRAMA (11:30am) "Visit with an Old Lady." (7pm) "A Meddler in the Nobility."

KOMISSARZHEVSKY "These Free Butterflies."

LITEINY "The Kremlin Chimes."

MARIINSKY (11:30am) Stravinsky's "The Firebird" and "The Nightingale." (7pm) The Vaganovaya Academy of Russian Ballet.

MOLODYOZHNY "Moon Wolves."

MUSICAL COMEDY (noon) "Fantik! Gav! Gav!" (7pm) Strauss' "Die Fleidermaus."

MUSSORGSKY (noon) Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker." (7pm) "La Traviata."

OTKRYTY "Gusar of the KGB."

SHOSTAKOVICH (4pm) Pianist I Solzhenitsyn performs Scarlatti, Schubert and Schumann. (7pm) The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky and Petrov.

SMOLNY The Smolny Chamber Choir performs.


MONDAY, MAY 29

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) Chekhov's "Can I Hope?"

MARIINSKY Adan's "Giselle."

MUSSORGSKY Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Golden Cockerel."

SHOSTAKOVICH The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky and Petrov.


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