Theater artist Valery Levental died © Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko Today, June 8, at the age of 76 in Baltimore (USA), a theater artist, scenographer and teacher Valery Levental died. This was reported to Colta.ru in the press service of the Bolshoi Theater. Valery Yakovlevich Levental was born in 1938 in Moscow, graduated from VGIK (1962), in 1963 he debuted as a theater artist, issuing performances in the theater named after M.N.

The National Bestseller Prize received Sergey Nosov © Ksenia Markova / "Reading" The laureate of the Russian Literary Prize “National Bestseller” of 2015 was the St. Petersburg writer and playwright Sergey Nosov. He was awarded for the novel "Figure brackets." It is reported by Kommersant . “Figure brackets are my sixth novel, its action unfolds in our time. This is a St. Petersburg story.

Dovlatov's festival announces a literary competition © Dovlatovfest / Facebook As part of the Sergey Dovlatov festival, the reserve, which will be held on September 16-20 in the Pskov region, a literary competition of young authors is held. According to the organizers, the BokovFactory Production Agency and the 148 intellectual club, the purpose of the competition is to find new talented authors, previously unknown to the general public and tell about them to a wide audience.

- In 2015, the “Mitin magazine” published in your publishing house will be thirty years old, and the sixty -eighth number recently released. “MZH” today is the same as “MZH” in 1985? Or can we say that the magazine has somehow changed? - Yes, and no. The structure of the magazine is the same, the authors and the general, so to speak, the roll depends on the mood of the owner.

Tatyana Baskakova translated Roman Kans Pleshinsky “Royal Alley”, excerpts from which the writer read in Moscow at the opening of the exhibition of photographs of Thomas Mann “The Life of the Writer” . The exhibition completed the year of the German language and literature in Russia . The translation of the novel "Royal Alley" is preparing for publication in Russia. At the request of C OLTA .

Scriabin Museum will show light music at VDNH From June 11 to June 25, the Memorial Museum A.N. Scriabin will present to the centenary of the composer’s death in Pavilion No. 15 “Radio Electronics” at the VDNH project “33 points of the TK Maria Skryabina”, which became the winner of the Grant Competition of the Moscow Department of Culture.

The HCSI opens an exhibition from the Gazprombank collection © Art Finance LLC / Collection of Gazprombank Ivan Chuikov. From the series "Types of Moscow. Panorama at dusk.

The Kinotavr began On Sunday, June 7, the premiere of Stanislav Govorukhin “The End of the Beautiful Era” in Sochi opened the XXVI Open Russian Film Festival “Kinotavr”. It is reported by TASS . At the opening ceremony, the prize "For Art and Civil Uncompromisingness" was awarded to the director Vadim Abdrashitov. In the main competition of the festival, 14 full -length feature films, including 6 debut work of Russian directors.

In St. Petersburg they will present a new play by Volkostroelov on Cage On June 15, 16, 17, 18, the St. Petersburg art-space Freedom will be held premiere performances of the performance of Dmitry Volkostroelov “Lecture on something”, the joint production of the Postr theater and the Open Scene project. Start of performances at 20:00 and 22:00.

Last Friday in the Bogorodskoye gallery, which is part of the association of the “Exhibition Halls of Moscow”, an exhibition was opened “ - be happy! “I am happy ...” Igor an airplane , photographer, graduate of the School Rodchenko, who was famous in Russia and abroad. However, the vernisage all ended.

Putin is asked to save MNRCH from privatization © MNRCHU Iconostasis of the Church of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Marfo-Mariinsky monastery, restored by MNRCH specialists in 2007 Artists of art and culture turned to President Vladimir Putin with an open letter, in which they are asked to preserve the state status of inter-regional scientific and restoration art management (MNRCH).

The popularity of electronic books in Russia has doubled According to a survey conducted by the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), the popularity of electronic books has doubled over the past four years: in 2011 they have been read by 9% of Russians, now - 17%. This is primarily young people (18–24 years old, 34%) and people with higher education (26%), reports VTsIOM .

It is difficult to find another female character in opera history, who does not mean causing your sympathy and sympathy. Bitch, bitch, “herself does not know what she wants”, a libido without a heart, the fruit of painful male fantasy. In his second (and last) opera, Alban Berg turned to Frank Vedikenda about Lula - “The Pandora's Box” that had long been the scandalous dilogy. The composer managed to completely complete the two acts out of three.