EVENTS

All performances start 7pm unless otherwise stated

TUESDAY 10th Jan
• ALEXANDRINSKY (11 am & 2 pm) Samuel Marshak, "Fearing Trouble Never Makes You Happy," a Comic Tale in 2 acts.
• MARIINSKY THEATER (Midday) Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker," choreography by Vaganova.
• MARIINSKY THEATER One-act Opera excerpts -- "Chopiniana," "Scheherezade" and "The Firebird."
• MUSSORGSKY Petrov's "Peter I," two-act opera.
• RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (6 pm) Tchaikovsky's "Evgeny Onegin."
• SHOSTAKOVICH PHILHARMONIA Academic Philharmonic Symphony, Linousse Symphony by Mozart, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Brahms, "In the South", a Symphonic Poem by Elgar. Conductor: A Constantine (Britain). Solo: Kashimoto.
• SMALL HALL Veniamin Bassner's 70th Anniversary.

WEDNESDAY 11th Jan
• BOLSHOY DRAMA THEATER E O'Neil "Under the Elms" drama in 3 acts.
• MARIINSKY THEATER Verdi's "La Traviata."

THURSDAY 12th Jan
• BOLSHOY DRAMA THEATER (midday) "Tarelkine's Demise", Farce Opera in 3 parts, after Sukhovo-Kobylin's comic drama.
• CAPPELLA Louis Vierne 125-year Memorial with Vladimir Khomyakov.
• MARIINSKY THEATER One-act Opera excerpts -- "Chopiniana," "Scheherezade" and "The Firebird."
• SMALL HALL Subscription 18, Concert 2: Cello Music Evening with Mikhail Borovik. Music by Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms.

FRIDAY 13th Jan
• ALEXANDRINSKY Lopes De Vega "Silly Girl", Premiere of the comedy in 3 acts. CAPPELLA The Terem Quartet.
• MARIINSKY THEATER (Midday) Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker," choreography by Vaganova.
• MARIINSKY THEATER Tchaikovsky's "Iolanthe."
• MUSSORGSKY Borodin's two-act opera, "Prince Igor."
• SMALL HALL "Five Centuries of Italian Opera," Vocal Evening with tenor Alexei Zemlyanoi.
• SMOLNY CATHEDRAL (5 pm) "Young Musicians Act" with students of St Petersburg Conservatory musical lyceum. String, brass, keyboards, and chamber ensembles.

SATURDAY 14th Jan
• ALEXANDRINSKY Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
• BOLSHOY DRAMA THEATER "A Bourgeois Amongst The Nobility", free interpretation by B Ratzer & V Konstantinov of J-B Moliere's comedy with music and dancing.
• CAPPELLA "Love Waltz" with Olga Minkina. Music by Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck, and Johannes Brahms.
• MARIINSKY THEATER Levenschold's Romantic ballet, "Sylphida," in two acts.
• RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (6 pm) Koval's three-act, children's opera, "The Wolf And The Seven Goats."

SUNDAY 15th Jan
• ALEXANDRINSKY (11 am) Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
• ALEXANDRINSKY (6 pm) "Romances with Oblomov" by N Goncharov, staged by M Rozovsky.
• MARIINSKY THEATER Puccini's "Tosca." Musical drama in three acts.
• MUSSORGSKY Tchaikovsky's "Iolanthe."
• RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (Midday) Koval's three-act, children's opera, "The Wolf And The Seven Goats."
• RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (6pm) Rossini's "The Barber Of Seville."

MONDAY 16th Jan
• MUSSORGSKY Verdi's "Rigoletto," in three acts.
• SHOSTAKOVICH The Philharmonia's Academic Symphony Orchestra. Conducted by V Verbitskiy, Soloist V Lyubitskaya (piano). Music by Debussy, Ravel and Mussorgsky.
• SMALL HALL "A Musical Evening In The Classical Venetian Style." St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra "Classica," A Kantorov conducting. Mozart.

• ALEXANDRINSKY DRAMA THEATER (In The Name Of Pushkin) Ploshchad strovskovo 2. Tel 312-15-45. Nearest Metro Gostiny Dvor.
• BOLSHOY DRAMA THEATER Fontanka Embankment 65. Tel 310-92-42. Nearest metro: Sennaya Ploshchad.
• CAPPELLA Moika Embankment 20, tel 314-10-58. Metro: Nevsky Prospect.
• MUSSORGSKY THEATER OF BALLET AND OPERA Pl. Iskustv 1, tel. 312-2040. Metro: Nevsky Prospect or Gostiny Dvor. Near Grand Hotel Europe.
• RIMSKY-KORSAKOV CONSERVATORY Teatralnaya Pl. 3, tel. 312-2519. Take Tram No. 31 from behind St Isaac's Cathedral.
• SHOSTAKOVICH PHILHARMONIC Ul. Mikhailovskaya 2, tel. 110-4257. Metro: Nevsky Prospect or Gostiny Dvor. Across from Grand Hotel.
• SMALL HALL OF PHILHARMONIC Nevsky Pr. 30, tel. 110-4257. Metro: Nevsky Prospect or Gostiny Dvor.
• SMOLNY CATHEDRAL, Rastrelli pl. 3, tel. 271-9182. Metro: Chernyshevskaya.