EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS

Events supplied courtesy of the Institute of Cultural Programs.

EXHIBITIONS

  • Blok Library. "St Petersburg," photo-exhibit by V P Ilyin. Through January.

  • Dostoyevsky Apartment Museum. "One to One." Paintings by A Kolesnikov. October 4-26. "Fifty-Fifty." From the collection of V Khudoley. October 6-30.

  • Hermitage. Italian painting from the Corsini Gallery. Month of October. Japanese painting and engravings of the Utagawa School. Month of October. "Unknown Chefs-d'oeuvres." French painting from the 19th to the early 20th century. Through March. Standing exhibits include: "The Wealth of the Imperial Palace," "Winter Palaces of Peter the First," and "The Mint."

  • Library of the Academy of Arts. "The Masters of Color." Reproductions of western European paintings of the 19th to early 20th century. Month of October. "The Bicentenary of Russian Engraving." A P Sapozhnikov. Month of October.

  • Manege Central Exhibition Hall. Paintings by Mikhail Shemyakin. October 17-November 15.

  • Museum of the History of Religion. Standing exhibits include: "Russian Ecclesiastical Art," "The History of Russian Orthodoxy," "The History of Western Christianity," "Catholicism and Protestantism," and "Religion of the East."

  • Museum of Russian Political History. Standing exhibits include: "Those Who Won the War," "Democracy or Dictatorship?," "Business Russia," "The State Duma Yesterday -- and Today?," "The Past Century and the Present," and "An Epoch Passes, Hope Remains."

  • New House of Culture. "Autumnal Fantasia." Exhibition of decorative and applied arts. From October 14.

  • Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkammer). Standing exhibits include: "The Shaman and the Universe," "Anatomical Rarities of the Kustkammer," and "The Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography During the Blockade."

  • Russian Museum, Mikhailovsky Palace. Graphic art and porcelain by S Chekhonin. Through October 25.

  • Russian Museum, Stroganov Palace. "Russian Terracotta, 18th to early 19th Century." Month of October.

  • Smolny Cathedral. "Our Life 100 Years Ago, as Viewed Through the Lens." From photographic and film archives. October 6-December 6.

  • Summer Garden Tea House. "The Rose of the Neva." Paintings. Month of October.

    EVENTS

  • Akhmatova Museum. Literary evening featuring Alexander Kushner. October 20 (6:00).

  • Glinka Capella. Choral music concert. The Olya Men's Choir (Germany). October 19. Evening of Russian Romances. V Shekhter (bass), I Uryash (piano). October 20. Organ recital by Oleg Mishcherenko. Bach, Saint-Saens, Widor. October 21. Piano recital by International Bach Competition First-Place Prize-winner Anton Boldyrev. Bach. October 22.

  • Glinka (Maly) Philharmonic Hall. Piano recital by Igor Uryash. October 17. Vocal recital by Nikolai Okhotnikov. October 18. Evening of chamber music. Natalia Morozova (violin), Jan Petkov (viola), Vadim Messerman (cello). Brahms. October 20. Guitar recital. October 21. "Musical Fairy-Tales." Lecture-recital by I M Levant. October 22 (3:00). "Pictures of Concert-Life at the Beginning of the 19th Century." Lecture-recital by I M Levant. October 22.

  • Gorky Palace of Culture. "Guys and Dolls, or the Night-Life of Broadway." October 23-25.

  • Maly Opera and Ballet (Musorgsky Theater). Musorgsky, "Boris Godunov," October 18. Tchaikovsky, "Swan Lake," October 19. Tchaikovsky, "The Queen of Spades," October 20. Stravinsky, "The Wedding" and "Petrushka," October 21. Loewenschold, "Sylphide," October 22 (12:00). Verdi, "La Traviata," October 22. Verdi, "Rigoletto," October 23. Borodin, "Prince Igor," October 25.

  • Mariinsky Theater (formerly Kirov). Asafyev, "The Fountain of Bakhchiserai," October 18, 26. Shostakovich, "Katerina Izmailova," October 19. Minkus, "Don Quixote," October 20. Rimsky-Korsakov, "The Maid of Pskov," October 21. Stravinsky, "The Nightingale" and "Mavra," October 22 (12:00). Tchaikovsky, "Sleeping Beauty," October 22. Adam, "Giselle," October 24. Verdi, "Aida," October 25.

  • Shostakovich (Great) Philharmonic Hall. I Solisti di St Petersburg Chamber Ensemble (Mikhail Gantvarg, musical director). Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons," Bartok's Divertimento, Barber's Adagio for Strings, Schnittke's Suite "in the Olden Style." October 18. Lahti (Finland) Symphony (Osma Vjanska, conductor). Brahms' "Tragic" Overture, Sibelius' Fifth Symphony, and more. October 20. Organ recital by Hans-Jula Eriksson (Sweden). Bach, Tournemire, Sandstrom, Kalnynsh. October 22. Collegium Musicum ensemble (Lev Boldyrev, artistic director; Peter Gribanov, conductor; Rafael Hismatullin and Victor Hussu, soloists). Bach, Mozart. October 24. Vocal recital by Tatyana Novikova (Elena Matusovskaya, accompanist). Arias from operas by Tchaikovsky and Rakhmaninov. October 25.

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