Poster

CLUBS

"Aquarium". At a rare club concert for Aquarium, songs from the new album “Careless Russian Tramp” and old songs, without which the last twenty years of Soviet, post-Soviet and Russian rock music are unthinkable, will be presented. May 19, “Orange” , 21.00.

As part of the Second Festival of Courtly Decadence “Velvet Underground” there will be a gala concert where the winners of the competition will perform. In total, about 60 groups took part in it, developing at the modern level the traditions of aestheticism, dandyism, decadence - the most interesting phenomena in European culture of the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the participants are the group “Boston Tea Party” and former showman of “AuktYon” Vladimir Veselkin , groups “Polynya”, “Nine”, “Tenderly”, “First Creative Association PYKH” , etc. The musicians will present unique, unlike anything else art performances. May 21, “Veresk” , 19.00.

CONCERTS

Masterpieces and premieres. Academic chamber orchestra Musica Viva. The conductor is one of the most unusual and brilliant in Europe - Roger Norrington. R. Volkman - Concerto for cello and orchestra (premiere); R. Schumann - Symphony No. 2; V.-A. Mozart -- Ballet Suite from the opera "Idomeneo". Artistic director of the orchestra and soloist A. Rudin (cello). May 19, Great Hall of the Conservatory , 19.00.

Blind Guardian. The legends of German speed power metal, who last year celebrated 20 years of creative activity, are playing in Moscow again. May 19, Palace of Culture named after. Gorbunova , 19.00.

Ricky Martin finally made it to Moscow. Apparently, guided by the principle “better late than never”... May 20, Sports Complex “Olympiysky”, 19.00.

Doro. German heavy metal lady Doro Pesch will present her new album Warrior Soul. May 20, Palace of Culture named after. Gorbunova , 19.00.

FESTIVAL

As part of the International Festival of New Music "Alternative 20" "New Dutch Swing..." Han Bennink (Netherlands) - percussion instruments... and free improvisation. May 19, “Home”, 19.30.

Another end of time. The second visit to Russia of the unique American jazz ensemble Spooky Actions (USA), which is based on the duet of electric guitarist Bruce Arnold and saxophonist John Gunter. The group performs Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps. And also Bruce Arnold (electric guitar), John Gunter (soprano saxophone), Tony Moreno (drums), David Phillips (upright bass), Aaron Jackson (piano) - inter-genre free collective improvisation of all festival participants. May 20, “Home” , 20.00.

The film retrospective "Neorealism and Contemporaries" as part of the Cherry Forest festival presents films by outstanding Italian directors Michelangelo Antonioni (Eclipse, Red Desert), Federico Fellini (Amarcord), Vittorio de Sica (Umberto D.), Luchino Visconti (“The Most Beautiful”) and iconic Soviet films of the 50s and 60s (“Wings” by Larisa Shepitko, “An Unsent Letter” by Mikhail Kalatozov), etc. Until May 27, “Artistic” , 19.00 and 21.00.

MOVIE

"The Da Vinci Code" (USA - France, 2006). Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tattoo, Ian McKellan, Jean Reno, Alfred Molina, Paul Bettany and Jurgen Prochnow. The scandalous film adaptation of Dan Brown's superbestseller: a strange murder in the Parisian Louvre unwinds the spring of a secret conspiracy... For details, see page 10. “Five Stars - Novokuznetskaya”, “Karo-film”, “October”, “Titanic Cinema”, “Cinema Park” (on Kaluzhskaya).

“Love and Cigarettes” (USA, 2005). Directed by John Turturro. Starring James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Mandy Moore, Tony Goldwyn and John Turturro himself. A rough, but dashing and witty social musical about the misadventures of the intimate life of a New York proletarian and members of his family. The film was presented in the competition program of the last Venice Film Festival, but, alas, lost to Brokeback Mountain, although it has no less artistic merit. “Five Stars - Novokuznetskaya”, “35MM”, “Horizon”, “Rolan”.

"Silent Hill" (USA - Japan - France, 2006). Directed by Christophe Gans. Starring Radha Mitchell, Laurie Holden, Sean Bean, Kim Coates. “Horizon”, “Karo-film”, “October”, “Romanov-Cinema”.

EXHIBITIONS

"Masterpieces of the Orsay Museum." Exhibition within the framework of the project “To the 150th anniversary of the Tretyakov Gallery. Museums of the world congratulate the Tretyakov Gallery." The famous Parisian museum, which has collected in its collection an unusually wide panorama of artistic achievements for the period from 1848 to 1914, brought 55 masterpieces from its collection to Moscow. Among them are paintings: works by C. Corot, G. Courbet, J.-F. Millet, “Portrait of Emile Zola” by E. Manet, “Orchestra of the Paris Opera” by E. Degas, “Gare Saint-Lazare” by C. Monet, “Dance in the Country” by O. Renoir, “Starry Night” by W. Van Gogh and works of outstanding sculptors: O. Daumier, O. Rodin, E. Degas, A. Bourdelle, A. Maillol. Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, until July 17.

"The Cabinet of Jewels of Augustus the Strong." As part of the program “Royal and Imperial Treasures in the Kremlin”. For the first time in Russia, about forty unique works from the richest jewelry collection in Europe - the “Green Vaults of Dresden” - are presented. Among the most valuable exhibits of the 18th century are enamel portraits, cabinet decorations made of colored precious stones, decorated with cameos, figurines with Baroque pearls and items from jewelry sets, aigrettes for hats created by the jeweler Johann Melchior Dinglinger. Among all these treasures is the famous pendant with the "Dresden Green" - the largest green diamond in the world. Kremlin. Patriarchal Palace, until August 2.

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