Elena Storyina will sing at the Salzburg festival © Ilya Korotkov / IMG Artists In the summer of 2019, the soloist of the Mariinsky Theater, Soprano Elena Stevina will perform at the Salzburg festival in the title party in the opera of Karubini Medea. According to the press service of the festival, Elena Styrina will replace the Bulgarian opera singer Sonya Yonchev, previously declared in this party, who will not be able to perform in Salzburg, as he will go on maternity leave.

Cube.moscow will hold a summit of collectors and an exhibition of new Russian art © Cube.moscow Yuri Albert. Without the name. 1990 On April 24, in the space of Cube.moscow, as part of the I international summit of collectors Cube.collectors, an exhibition of works from private collections of Moscow collectors “New Russian. Art at the turn of the 80s-90s of the twentieth century.

Bosco Fresh Fest will be held in the Moscow Palace of Pioneers © Bosco Fresh Fest This year, the Bosco Fresh Fest festival will be held on June 29 at the Moscow Palace of Pioneers. This was reported by the press service of the festival. “Annually, Bosco Fresh Fest changes the location, and with it the concept and aesthetics,” the press service noted.

Boris Usov died © G. Yushchenko On April 11, in Moscow, at the age of 48, the poet, musician, artist and film critic, leader of the group “straw raccoons” Boris Usov (Belokurov) died. This was announced by music journalist Maxim Semelak. In 1992, Boris Usov became one of the founders of the Moscow underground punk group "Solomennaya Raccoon", which lasted until 2007, releasing more than twenty albums during this time.

The dispute about vulgar and noble instruments - the tools of art and production - old, like culture itself. Colta.ru met with Eric Johansson - a Swedish photographer, whose surrealist collages created on the computer can now be seen in the center of photography named after Brothers Lumier. Together, we thought about how the means of production become art products and what will be the new digital art, which is born now and who does not even have a name.

Valery Fokin leaves the STD secretariat The artistic director of the Alexandrinsky Theater Valery Fokin decided to leave the Secretariat of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia (STD). The reason for this decision was the discrepancy on the merger of the Alexandrinsky Theater and the Yaroslavl Theater named after Volkov. Fokin set out his position in a letter sent to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, TASS reports.

The St. Petersburg House of Cinema will present a retrospective Grigory Kozintsev © Cinema House From April 22 to 24, in the Great Hall of the Cinema House in St. Petersburg there will be free shows of three Grigory Kozintsev, “New Babylon”, “Hamlet” and “King of Lear”. The films will be presented by Kinoved Dmitry Bakirov and the son of the director, Doctor of Historical Sciences Alexander Kozintsev . The picture "New Babylon" will be shown accompanied by live piano music.

The Dance Open festival will open next week in St. Petersburg for the eighteenth time. The best Russian ballet festival today has collected a thorough program-having responded a variety of tastes and completing several tasks: the tour of large European troupes, the Russian novelty, the obligatory final gala concert with the participation of stars, the neoclassical, pseudo-classical ballet, and not at all classical.