Dedication to the Virgin Mary. Bach, Kaccin, Schubert, Palestrina, Gabrieli, Brahms, Gounod, Gagnidze Moscow Cello Quartet: Vladimir Tonkha, Rostislav Burkin, Anna Balakina, Vladimir Nikonov. Soloist Alexey Shevchenko (organ). Roman Catholic Cathedral, 19.30 FESTIVAL “Universe of Sound”. “Heavenly Music of the Harp” Olga Balashova (soprano), Angel Padilla Crespo (harp). Students of the harp class of the Moscow Conservatory: Semyon Kulkov, Yulia Komarova, Marina Kruglova, Yana Khurumova.

Five years ago, Andrei Zholdak staged “The Seagull” at the Theater of Nations, where Chekhov’s worldview was compared to a man-made disaster. Then he brought from Kharkov, where he served as the head of the Berezil Theater for several years, two performances: “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” and “Hamlet”. Naked men, bald old women, chained dogs and thousands of eggs crushed in front of the public will be remembered for a long time.

V.N.Petrov-Kamchatsky (1936-1993) Graphics, until May 14

lucky Ilyich Tchaikovsky EVERYTHING THAT MOVES On May 14, the Buena Vista Social Club team will come to “35MM” - of course, without the good (and better) half of the participants (they are no longer in the world), but still with quite outstanding Cuban people related to Ibrahim Ferrer and the company. Read more in the “Concerts” section on page 78. On July 2, the Orange club will host a concert by American rock bard Devendra Banhart .

with Björk as a guest vocalist and a symphony orchestra in the background. Their latest album features The Rapture's Matt Safer, Chikinki's Rupert Brown, Everything But the Girl's Tracy Thorne and a bunch of obscure club divas - the next one could very well be Kylie or Madonna. “Madonna,” picks up Ali, we just finished a remix for her a week ago. And for Depeche Mode too. They made a new single for Madonna from her album. It’s called... It’s called...

Alexander Atanesyan. Starring Andrey Pannin, Andrey Krasko, Alexander Golovin, Vladimir Kashpur. Russia, 2006 In 1943, the former colonel and now ezk Vishnevetsky (Panin) was released from the camp so that he could make a special group out of a bunch of street children to carry out a suicide mission. A teenage version of “The Dirty Dozen,” directed by Alexander Atanesyan, who five years ago directed the extremely good gangster film “24 Hours,” which then turned a bit sour.

indispensable advantages of a modern singer) demonstrates how far everything has gone and what a different person he has become. Neither Tchaikovsky's romances for you, nor Rachmaninov's romances for you. The program includes fashionable baroque, intellectual Mahler, Grieg, Richard Strauss and Mozart's signature Papageno. House of Music, Mon May 15, 19.00, in the chamber hall

The former Novosibirsk prodigy, who arrives as an import star, plays Mozart, Beethoven, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Mon May 15, 19.00

The authorship of this murderously cruel, beautiful, as God knows what, two-hour (the director's cut reportedly lasts all three hours) canvas based on a Japanese computer game belongs to a very strange dream team: French director Gan (who directed The Crying Assassin and Brotherhood of the Wolf - two delightful, if somewhat stupid films), former Tarantino co-writer Roger Avery and another Frenchman - Nicola Boucrif (screenwriter Kassovitz’s film “The Killer/Killers”, as the director who made the

On weekends, in the Versailles of the Yusupov princes near Moscow, there are more people walking than metro passengers at rush hour. But the palace in the classicist style is now surrounded by scaffolding - the work is promised to be completed by mid-summer.

The American pianist, originally from Tashkent, is famous for his performances of Bartók’s concertos, for which he received a Grammy Award for recording. One of them - the Second - he will play together with Valery Gergiev. Mon May 8, 19.00, in the Great Hall

Exhibition of semi-precious stones in the local history museum Ministry of Culture of the regional “Cathedral” of precious metals “Visiting the deral” On the high- and field-place-

video art: in principle, everything is the same as in Geusa’s previous projects in Moscow, but with a new title - “Let there be video!” The second exhibition is video and photo documentation of the performances of the international group “Fluxus”, a joint project of the Marat Gelman Gallery and the Italian Linda Kaiser Gallery.

Play by B. Srbljanovich. Directed by N. Chusova. Starring V. Vetrov, S. Yushkevich, U. Lapteva, K. Korshunova and others. Nina Chusova herself called the performance that way - “a comic show.” Vladislav Vetrov, Sergei Yushkevich, Ulyana Lapteva are responsible for the comic strip: the leading Sovremennik artists of the thirty- and forty-year-old generation paint their characters in catchy, almost pop colors and simplify the already simple play.

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