Opera and so-a gloomy genre. And when theaters take up her comic variety, I often want to cry at all. Laughter and opera rarely get along with each other. But there are still exceptions. “Traveling to Reims” is just such a wonderful, just the New Year's exception. It would seem that the historical scene of the Bolshoi Theater is the most difficult of the scenes. The premiere audience is the most biased of the public.

From the author Park territories have always been used for unobtrusive broadcasting cultural codes - usually through small architectural forms and monuments. The combat equipment, as if remaining after the next parade, gradually flows into the urban space, usually called the Victory Park. Tanks and aircraft ideologically related to the cult of the Great Patriotic War, as a rule, are examples of relatively new technology, recently written off from the current parts.

On Friday, December 14, and Saturday, December 15, the Japanese composer and vibrophonist Masayshi Fujit will present in St. Petersburg and Moscow his new album “Book of Life”, which is simultaneously final in the trilogy. These neoclassical releases, published on the Erased Tapes Records label, explore the possibilities of the sound of the vibrophone-relatively young instrument created in the 1910s and originally used as a accompanying tool in jazz.

Remember the "Christmas romance" to the verses of Joseph Brodsky? The group of Oleg Nesterov and Mikhail Gabolaev has a glorious and kind tradition - to release a special song for winter holidays. The new winter romance of the Megapolis is written in the immortal poems of Boris Pasternak. A new stage begins with this song in the life of a real Moscow ensemble - a number of its future compositions will be associated with the poetry of famous authors of different times and countries.

This text of Sergei Medvedev was prepared for the conference “Russian realities: state, society, civil society”, organized by the Sakharov Center, the International Memorial and the Levada Center. The conference will be held on December 15-16, 2018. Here you can familiarize yourself with its full program. To visit the conference, you need to register here . In recent years, one of the main topics of Russian politics has become bodily.

The text continues the joint project of Colta.ru with the official website of Sweden in Russia in Russian Sweden.ru - “For example, Sweden” . Where are the trillions of chats, status and pictures that you fill out your Facebook are physically stored? To a significant extent, they are unscathed among the snow near the North Pole.