EVENTS

All performances start 7pm unless otherwise stated

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1
• MARIINSKY: Ballet by Mikhail Fokine ";Chopeniana, "; ";Scheherazade,"; ";The Fire Bird,"; music by Chopin, Rimsky-Korsokov, Stravinsky. Rimsky-Korsokov ";The Garden,"; opera-ballet in seven movements.
• MUSSORGSKY: Rimsky-Korsakov ";Golden Cockerel,"; an opera in three movements.
• MALY GLINKA HALL: An evening of chamber music with the Virtuoso Quintet. Frank and Shostakovich.
• AKIMOVA COMEDY THEATER: Shakespeare';s ";The Taming of the Shrew."; 12am.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2
• GLINKA CAPELLA HALL: Piano evening by Vassily Ilisavsky. Mozart, Beethoven.
• MUSSORGSKY: Tchaikovsky';s opera ";Eugene Onegin"; in three movements.
• SHOSTAKOVICH PHILHARMONIA: Large Hall: concert extracts of music by Prokofiev, Bartok and Ravel conducted by V Berbitsky of the Russian Academic Symphony Orchestra. Soloist V Mishuk.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3
• MARIINSKY: Ballet by Adan, ";Giselle,"; in two acts.
• MUSSORGSKY: Ballet by Levenskhold "; Silfida,"; in two movements. 12am.
• SHOSTAKOVICH PHILHARMONIA: Russian Academic Symphony Orchestra performs extracts from Prokofiev and Ravel. Conducted by V Berbitsky with soloist V Mishuk.
• MALY GLINKA HALL: Piano evening by P Igorov.
• GLINKA CAPELLA HALL: An evening of organ music by Rubin Abdulin. Bach, Brahms and Liszt.
• ST PETERSBURG STATE ORCHESTRA (41 Nevsky Prospect.) Concert: Mozart';s Requiem. Director Professor Ravile Martinov
• PUSHKIN DRAMA THEATER: F Molnar ";The Devil"; comedy.
• AKIMOVA COMEDY THEATER: B Patzer, V Konstantinov ";Triumph over Guilt,"; comedy in two acts.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4
• MARIINSKY: Opera by Glinka ";Ruslan and Ludmilla,"; in five movements. Performance starts from the fourth movement. (Repeat performance on Sunday, February 5 at 6pm). Opera by Prokofiev ";Love and Three ranges,"; folk fairy tale in two parts.
• MUSSORGSKY: Opera by Borodin ";Prince Igor"; in two movements.
• SHOSTAKOVICH PHILHARMONIA: Evening piano recital by Sergei Musaelyan.
• PUSHKIN DRAMA THEATER: Scenes of Moscow life ";Its a dog';s Life"; a new play by A Ostrovsky. 11am. Hamlet. Shakespeare.
• AKIMOVA COMEDY THEATER: A Volkov ";The Town Magician."; Two act fantasy play. 10.30am; 1.30pm. ";A Faithful Wife"; by S Moem. Comedy in two acts.

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 5
• MUSSORGSKY: * Opera by Shost-akovich ";Fairy tale of father Poppy and his Deacon Baldy."; comic opera in two movements. 12am. * S Kalosh. ";Makete,"; ballet in three movements.
• SHOSTAKOVICH PHILHARMONIA: Evening organ recital by Natalia Sirotskaya. Bach, Frank and Viery.
• MALY GLINKA HALL: * Concert-lecture ";Getting acquainted with musical instruments"; with Irina Levant. 12am * Evening of violin music, Count Murzha, Schuman and Brahms.
• GLINKA CAPELLA HALL: All Russian Wind Instrument Orchestra Laureate concert using old wind instruments. Plus the Symphony Orchestra directed by Alexander Shernashenko.
• SMOLNY CATHEDRAL: Choral recital at 12am.
• MALY THEATER: Sunday and Monday: B.M Kolts ";Roberto Zukko"; premiere.
• PUSHKIN DRAMA THEATER: * Hamlet. Shakespeare. (12am) * K. Manet ";Blez";. Comedy in two acts.
• AKIMOVA COMEDY THEATER: * Shakespeare';s ";Taming of the Shrew."; (12am)

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6
• MUSSORGSKY: Ballet by T Puni, ";Esmerelda,"; in three movements.
• SHOSTAKOVICH PHILHARMONIA: Russian Academic Symphony Orchestra directed by V Fedatov. Soloist P Fedatova. Sen-Sans, Ravel, Masnee.
• AKIMOVA COMEDY THEATER: S Paskin, ";Accelerators"; two act comedy.

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