The Sicilian Vespers were placed in Mariinka Verdi On March 17, in Mariinsky-2, the premiere of Verdi’s opera “Sicilian Vespers” will be held in the production of Arno Bernard, Valery Gergiev will be conducted by the Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater. The premiere performances of the Sicilian Vespers will also take place on March 18, April 16 and 17.

VDNH will present the final exhibition of the project "Taken" © VDNH From April 27 to June 25, the Pavilion No. 16 “Hydrometeorology” at VDNH will host an exhibition, which summarizes the exhibition project “Taken”, the main task of which is the opening of new names and support for young professionals in the field of modern culture. The VDNH competition was announced in the spring of 2016, it was attended by artists, architects, designers, video artists and photographers aged 18 to 25 years.

The Nose Award has a new nomination Today, March 15, the acceptance of applications for the Literary Prize "Nose" begins. From this season, the founders and organizers of the award, the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation, introduce a new nomination - the “prize of the critical community”. Acceptance of applications is open until July 31. Book publishers, media, literary agencies, creative unions and associations can nominate nominees.

This year, “Mumiy Troll” celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Mornskaya album by special concerts. Ilya Lagutenko told Colta.ru about why this album impressed millions, where a girl with a stuck tongue went out and what the Pulp group has to do with it. A special bonus for fans: the premiere of a concert video in which Mumiy Troll performs the title song of the famous record.

Today, March 15, in the Moscow Cinema Oktyabr cinema, the Musical Comedy Sing Street (director John Carney) opens the X festival of Irish cinema . This film, telling about the everyday life of a school rock band from Dublin of the 80s, is generally setting the mood of the entire program, collected mainly from a cute and optimistic mainstream (an ideal pair of Sing Street, for example, the hipster musical “Once”, shot also by John Carni).

The art group Zukclub will decorate the Tskhinval with huge frescoes © Zukclub artists Zukclub are working on one of the frescoes of the "Heritage" project During 2017, Zukclub, a group of monumental artists working in the style of street art, plans to create a fresco with a total area of ​​more than a thousand square meters in South Ossetia.

Tatarstan State Counter recorded all Shostakovich's concerts At the company "Melody", Shostakovich's instrumental concerts performed by young soloists - laureates of the XIV and XV International Competitions named after P.I. Tchaikovsky - and the State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan under the direction of Alexander Scholkovsky. According to the website of the company "Melody", the publication "Alexander Scholkovsky.

Alexei Tolstov, a citizen, writer and artist, filed a complaint against the National Center for the Contemporary Arts of Belarus (NTSSI) after the center refused to answer questions about the list of works of art acquired for its foundation over the past three years, about their value and the composition of the commission that carried out selection. On December 14, 2016, the process was held in the court of the Central District of Minsk, as a result of which the complaint was refused.

Published essays Kirill Kobrin about post -Soviet Russia The publishing house “New Literary Review” published a book by the historian and writer, author of Colta.ru Kirill Kobrin “The post -Soviet Mausoleum of the past. The stories of the times of Putin. " “In his new book, Kirill Kobrin analyzes the consciousness of Russian society and the Russian government a quarter century after the collapse of the USSR. - It is said in the annotation on the website of the publisher .

Politicians often appeal to the “people” or “nation” as justifications for the competence of their actions and their power. In the 1930s, the concept of popular became one of the key-traces of this paper, we still meet, for example, in the language: “People’s Artist”, “People’s Writer” remain the highest official titles for cultural figures.

Animated cinema festival opens in Suzdal Today, March 15, in Suzdal, the XXII Open Russian Festival of Animated Cinema begins, at which all types of animation produced in Russia or Russian citizens working in other countries will be presented. The theme of the festival is “Like by notes”, in the competition program more than a hundred films: 8 full -length, 23 short -term residents, 11 debuts, 20 series, 27 student films, 16 works participate in the competition of applied animation.

Emigrant School Sergey Nevsky: 13 fragments about the current situation September 21, 2023 10006 Landscape now and after the war Alexander Morozov about the prospects of those who left and remain September 12, 2023 6365 Life outside of "we" Polina Barskova about the experience of emigration 12 September 2023 5123 Blind stories Lyol Kantor - about Russia from the position of "external involvement" September 12, 2023 4748 Dmitry Butrin: "The reader now wants a lie" Deputy editor -in -chief of the

“Someday this will also become a story”-this is how a person who experiences historical disasters usually consoles himself; This formula is applicable to the times when it seems that the story has gone back. The central sensation from present-day Russia is the combination of some kind of painful dynamics inside-and more and more noticeable against this background of external civilizational numbness.