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WHITE NIGHTS EVENTS (INCLUDES FESTIVAL)

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* 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.

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) A Daudet's "The Tartar from Taraskon."

GLINKA CAPPELLA Organ-vocals evening. Bach, Handel, Gliuk, Vivaldi, Mozart and Rachmaninoff.

MARIINSKY Minkus' "Don Quixote."

MUSSORGSKY Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades."

SHOSTAKOVICH The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven.

SMALL HALL Violinist G Kramer performs.

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) Bulgakov's "Zoikin's Apartment."

BOLSHOY DRAMA The C Rustaveli Theater performs "Evangelina from Yakov."

MARIINSKY Symphony concert.

MUSSORGSKY Verdi's "La Traviata."

SHOSTAKOVICH Closing of the "Evenings of Jewish Music" festival. The St petersbur chamber Orchestra performs Khazdan, Flender, Shostakovich, Gnesin and Weinberg.

SMALL HALL Japanese pianist Y Tateno performs Grieg, Schumann and Schubert.

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) Ostrovsky's "Easy Money."

GLINKA CAPPELLA Dutch organist E Viesinga performs.

MARIINSKY The Vaganovaya Academic Russian Ballet performs.

MUSSORGSKY Pugni's "Esmeralda."

SHOSTAKOVICH The Santa Chechilia Orchestra performs Rossini, Mozart and Schumann.

FRIDAY, JUNE 23

BOLSHOY DRAMA The C Rustaveli Theater performs "The Kind Man from Szechuan."

GLINKA CAPPELLA The Cappella Symphony Orchestra performs.

MARIINSKY Levenshold's "Les Sylphides."

MUSICAL COMEDY V Pleshak's "Ah, These Sweet Sinners."

MUSSORGSKY Third International Ballet Competition and Festival "Vaganova."

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

OSTAKOVICH The Santa Chechilia Orchestra performs Verdi and Schumann.

SMALL HALL Pianist N Lugansky performs.

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

GLINKA CAPPELLA Chamber music evening. Schubert.

MARIINSKY Mussorgsky's "Khovanshchina."

MUSICAL COMEDY Strauss' "Die Fliedermaus."

MUSSORGSKY Third International Ballet Competition and Festival "Vaganova."

SHOSTAKOVICH The St Petersburg State Orchestra performs Mozart, Chopin and Mendelssohn. (10pm) Chamber choir performance of Stravinsky.

SMALL HALL Star vocalists of the Mariinsky Theater perform.

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

BOLSHOY DRAMA The C Rustaveli Theater performs "Macbeth."

MARIINSKY Verdi's "Aida."

MUSSORGSKY Third International Ballet Competition and Festival "Vaganova."

SHOSTAKOVICH Musicians from the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra perform Elgar's "Enigma."

SMALL HALL (3pm) The Tchaikovsky Youth Chamber Orchestra performs Vivaldi and Shostakovich.

SMOLNY (noon) The "Troitsky" Youth Choir performs Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Archangelsky and Berezovsky.

ALEXANDRINSKY (7:30pm) The Boris Eifman Ballet Theater performs Minkus' "Don Quixote."

GLINKA CAPPELLA A US chamber choir performs.

MARIINSKY The Vaganovaya Academic Russian Ballet performs.

MUSSORGSKY Ballet evening to the music of Tchaikovsky.

SHOSTAKOVICH (4pm) The Mariinsky Theater Orchestra performs Beethoven. (7pm) The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra performs Mozart, Strauss and Berlioz.

ALEXANDRINSKY (7:30) The State Academic Ballet Theater performs Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."

BOLSHOY DRAMA The C Rustaveli Theater performs "The Kind Man from Szechuan."

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

SHOSTAKOVICH The Mariinsky Theater Orchestra performs Brahms and Tchaikovsky.

SMALL HALL Piano evening.