Richard Wagner's front opera lasts less than three hours - and it is a rare newcomer, caught in the sea of ​​Wagnerian passions, who will emerge unscathed. The length of Wagner's scores has become legendary. Having built his personal theater in Bayreuth, the composer demanded that the audience be fed hot food before the start of the opera and during intermissions, as if before a long journey.

Published posthumously, unfinished, not in need of publication, intended to light the fireplace, requiem novels criticized to smithereens by worn-out masters of European and American literature are the specialty of our AST publishing house. You can, of course, be ironic on this topic, but the latest novel by the author of “Catch-22” J. Heller (1923-1999), which falls under all these definitions, is category A literature; I don’t regret reading it at all, and I wish you the same.

Joel Gallen, USA, 2001 Starring Schuyler Leigh, Chris Evans, Jaime Pressly, Mia Kirshner (dubbed) Another youth movie: naked tits, girlish diarrhea on a biology teacher, Siamese twins joined at the ears, pigs, smoking joints, old lesbians and again naked tits. The film's working title was Ten Things I Hate About Road Trips When the All I Can't Wait To Do Is Get Kissed. No comment.

“Tatami Club” is now the name of the Burevestnik recreation center, built by Konstantin Melnikov in 1930 in Sokolniki. In the early nineties, the building was in disrepair; access to the monument of Soviet architecture was closed. The reconstruction has now been completed. It will be possible to get inside in a few months.

“Moscow apartment 20/21” Painting, graphics, sculpture, photography, objects, media art. A-3, until February 24 Moscow photographers A-3, February 27 – March 10 Maria Pogorelskaya “Beach”. Aidan, until February 26 “Veterans of the Second World War” Front-line artists. Bagheera, February 23-28 Galina Gazhevskaya, Lydia Stribul and her students Volumetric applique. Gallery-club in Saburov, until February 22 “To the 10th anniversary of the International Art Fund” Painting, batik, photography.

Les Mayfield, USA, 2001 Starring Colin Farrell, Scott Kanan, Timothy Dalton, Kathy Bates (dubbed) Free shooter Jesse James and his boys, brother and cousins, fought with the Yankees until the last minute, but they won the Civil War. After the war, the Yankees decided to build a railroad through the James's land and, encountering resistance, burned their house and killed their mother.

Iain Softley, USA, 2001 Starring Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack (dubbed) www.k-pax.com A man in black glasses with a face damaged by smallpox (Spacey) sits in front of a psychiatrist (Bridges) and says in all seriousness that his name is Prot, he is from the planet Ka-Pax, flew here from Chi-

Drummer, Electron, Mon-Thu February 18-28; America-Cinema, Mon-Mon 18-25, Wed 27, Thu 28 February, Sat 2, Sun 3 March; Kodak Kinomir, Mon-Thu 18-21 February; Orbit, Pobeda, Mon-Wed February 18-27; MDM Cinema, Thu 21 February – Sun 3 March; Orion, Thu 28 February, Fri 1 March; Zaryadye, Kinoplex on Leninsky, Cinema Center (Big Hall), Fri-Sun March 1-3; Downtown, Sun 3 March

And no matter what the heroes do, at best nothing will change, at worst it will change so radically that it cannot be said in a fairy tale or described with a pen. 5 stars, Artistic, Mon-Wed 18-20 February; Baikonur, Mon-Thu 18-21 February

Average Italian restaurant. There are no such things in Italy itself. But on our territory they sometimes come across. There are two exceptional features: “Mediterranean soup” for 240 rubles. with an amazing abundance of fish and mussels and "Avocado to grande" for 250 rub. with skillful counting of the green flesh with the pink fillet of smoked salmon. Pico is popular among couples and slouching managers in very inexpensive suits.

Great Hall of the Bach Conservatory. Concerto for four pianos and orchestra. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 for piano, flute and chamber orchestra. Suite No. 3 for orchestra. Chamber orchestra "Russian Camera-ta". Conductor Vyacheslav Trushin. Soloists: Nikolai Petrov, Tigran Alikhanov, Polina Bespalko, Olga Papikyan (piano), Albert Ratzbaum (flute). 19.00, ab. 25 Small Hall of the Conservatory “Musical capitals of the world. Paris". Saint-Saens, Debussy, Ravel.

FIRST PERFORMANCES OF THE GOLDEN MASK FESTIVAL “The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh” and “Valkyrie” of the MARIINSKY THEATER, STARS OF THE MARIINSKY BALLET IN THE EVENING OF “IMPERIAL RUSSIAN BALLET” GEDIMINAS TARANDA THE MARIINSKY THEATER BRINGS “KITEZH” AND “VALKYRIE”

Adijey is perhaps the most peaceful profession: when the guns talk, the turntables are silent. It’s rare that a DJ can boast that he’s smelled gunpowder in his life (they clearly don’t smell gunpowder in these circles). So, that very rare DJ is going to Moscow - even though his last name is more than typical: DJs with the last name Morales are just like the Ivanovs in the Russian government. Martin Morales is an extraordinary character in many ways.

tsu Margarita Ivanovna, then the weighty intellectual Cleopatra Maksimovna appears to him. Cleopatra offers to know how to love her, which in itself is funny, and when Irina Podkopaeva appears as a seductress, the fun in the hall reaches its climax. So, to the accompaniment of laughter and rollicking gypsy dances, which intersperse the dialogues, the play rapidly rolls towards the finale. This is where the comedy ends.

STEFAN WOLPE was born in Berlin in 1902. Due to circumstances beyond his control, everything went on in such a way that only the anniversary date made the musical community remember that he wrote good compositions. Volpe's whole life is a series of missed opportunities.