The Italian performance won the main prize of the Baltic House © Brenta & de Villers / Compagnia Pippo DelBono Scene from the play "Orchids" The main prize of the XXIV Directorate of the International Festival "Baltic House" was the performance of the Italian theater company Pippo Delbono "Orchids" in the texts of Shakespeare and Chekhov. The award ceremony was held today, October 13, in the lobby of the Baltic House, which is decorated with the Globus Theater on the Festival Days, TASS reports.

A colossal event for blues lovers: for the first time in Russia, John Mayall will perform as part of a tour dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the musician. The guitarist, singer, keyboard player, author of songs, performer on the labial harmonic, who is called the "godfather of the British Blues." In his group, Bluesbreakers, Maior, has grown a whole generation of significant musicians, such as Eric Clapton, Peter Green ( Fleetwood Mac ), Blues-Rock guitarist Coco Montaoya.

In Moscow and St. Petersburg, concerts of Lucerne Festival String were held - the String Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival; The next stops are Tyumen, Perm, Novosibirsk. The orchestra made his debut at the Lucerne Festival in 1956 and the next season performed in Salzburg, Vienna, Berlin, Paris with world -class soloists.

The police denied clashes with Cannibal Corpse fans in St. Petersburg The Petersburg police deny the fact of a clash of Cannibal Corpse fans with a riot police near the Cosmonaut club, where an abolished concert of the American metal group was supposed to take place. On Sunday evening, on October 12, after the organizers of the concert at the last moment announced its cancellation for technical reasons, several hundred dissatisfied Kannibal Corpse fans gathered for the Cosmonaut club.

"Night of Museums" in Russia will be devoted to victory © Valday-service.ru By the 70th anniversary of Victory, Russian museums of all levels will first be united in the “Museum Night” campaign, on which in May 2015. They will represent expositions dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.

1. In connection with the award of the next Nobel Prize in literature and annually arising discussions about the validity of the choice of the Swedish Academy, it is not possible to update the list of laureates in the previous years of the existence of this award in memory. According to the Charter of the Prize, the Swedish Academy has been secretly keeping all materials on the award procedure for the past half a century.

The International Festival of Animation "KROC" (in Ukrainian "Step") has existed for 25 years and this year for the first time took place without Ukrainian financing, only for Russian money. Dual subordination, of course, significantly facilitates the festival task that is problematic for all film forums, with the exception of, perhaps, the Omsk “movement”, where President Artem Mikhalkov.

As it is always accepted in the project “Cinema Believe” , tomorrow-and only one day-we will have an online show of the wonderful film by Daria Khleskina about the death of one separate plant-ZIL-and what is behind it . You can watch the film with us from 11:00 to 23:00. Do not miss your chance to watch an amazing movie!

Site owners will reveal their names and addresses © Systemup.co According to the latest version of the anti -Pirate bill, introduced to the State Duma by the Russian government, site owners will be required to indicate their names and contact information.

On October 10, I read in newspapers about the close closure of the Memorial. The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation appealed to the Supreme Court with a request for the liquidation of the company. Assuming that the two branches of the authorities in our country, although unconscious, are also inseparable, I involuntarily thought that everything has already been decided and we see on the surface only deceptive signs of a developing process, which is actually already completed.

The organizers of the Shakespearean Passion subtitus finished today in St. Petersburg of the Baltic House festival, although the poster would be more like the name of one of the events of the parallel program - Theater without sanctions. The organizers really managed to gather a bright and convincing poster in which performances from different countries replaced each other, like planets, not noticing bad weather in a political sky.

The symposium "Musical map of the world" will be held in Moscow © Scientific and Creative Center "Musical Cultures of the World" / YouTube Hosein Nursharg and the Caravan group on the stage of the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, 2013 From October 18 to 26, the international symposium “Musical map of the world” will be held for the first time in Moscow, in the program of which reports and concerts dedicated to the musical tradition of Iran, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India, Korea

The program of Kryakk is announced From October 31 to November 4, the VIII Krasnoyarsk Fair of Book Culture (KRIAKK) will be held at the Siberian Ministry of Internal Affairs, in which more than 200 publishers will take part in the work.