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More than 80 per cent of the films, which are being made today, are screened versions of literary works. Therefore, there's no surprise at all that the film festival, "Literature and Cinema", has become a traditional event in Russia, which usually presents an extensive programme including various films. The 16th festival... →
Wednesday saw the beginning of a 6-day world tour by a handful of noted Russian art groups, reports the Voice of Russia's Olga Bugrova, adding that destinations include several European and South American countries. Thursday will witness a performance of the Kazan National Drama Theater in the Colombian capital, Bogota - an event... →
The legendary German rock band "Scorpions" will visit Moscow on March 18th as part of their farewell tour. The concert will show whether the musicians have preserved those "combat" qualities, thanks to which the group was called "a hurricane on stage", and whether their audience still accounts for thousands of fans... →
The festival, marking the 10th anniversary of the Russian Choreography School, has taken place in Joinville in Brazil. This school is known all over South America, which is no surprise at all, because it was set up by the Russian ballet dancers from the world-famous Bolshoi Theatre, who work there as teachers. The Russian Choreography School in... →
An international festival of organ music starts this Thursday in Kaliningrad, a city in the northwest of Russia that before WWII was part of Germany and bore the name of Koenigsberg, to commemorate 325 years since the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. Five evenings in the city’s 14th-century cathedral will be full of music by the great German... →
Theatre lovers and critics are preparing for the first operetta on the stage of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre due to take place on March 17th. "The Bat" or "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss, which is one of the best samples of the genre, was selected for the experiment. Until recently it was hardly possible to imagine... →
More than 80 per cent of the films, which are being made today, are screened versions of literary works. Therefore, there's no surprise at all that the film festival, "Literature and Cinema", has become a traditional event in Russia, which usually presents an extensive programme including various films. →
Wednesday saw the beginning of a 6-day world tour by a handful of noted Russian art groups, reports the Voice of Russia's Olga Bugrova, adding that destinations include several European and South American countries. →
The legendary German rock band "Scorpions" will visit Moscow on March 18 th as part of their farewell tour. The concert will show whether the musicians have preserved those "combat" qualities, thanks to which the group was called "a hurricane on stage", and whether their audience still accounts for thousands of fans, or not. →
The festival, marking the 10 th anniversary of the Russian Choreography School, has taken place in Joinville in Brazil. This school is known all over South America, which is no surprise at all, because it was set up by the Russian ballet dancers from the world-famous Bolshoi Theatre, who work there as teachers. →
An international festival of organ music starts this Thursday in Kaliningrad, a city in the northwest of Russia that before WWII was part of Germany and bore the name of Koenigsberg, to commemorate 325 years since the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. →
Theatre lovers and critics are preparing for the first operetta on the stage of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre due to take place on March 17 th . "The Bat" or "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss, which is one of the best samples of the genre, was selected for the experiment. →
An unusual exhibition, titled "Pushkin Descendants for the Protection of Their Motherland", will open in the Nizhny Novgorod Region ahead of the 65 th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. It is dedicated to the children, grandsons and great-grandsons of the Great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin who defended Russia against enemies at different times. →
Visitors to the well-known international exhibition of flowers in the Keukenhof Gardens near Amsterdam will be able see a large flower panel depicting the Moscow St. Basil's Cathedral next to the traditional Dutch tulips. This is for the first time in the history of the exhibition, that it is dedicated to Russia. →
The world’s biggest photograph with a panoramic view of Paris has been made in France and is now available in the Internet. The picture is composed of 26 gigapixels and if printed on paper would occupy the territory of two football pitches. →
Moscow ’s renowned Bolshoi Theater will premiere “The Bat” by Johann Strauss-junior tonight, the first ever operetta in its history. Reformist-minded stage director Vasily Barkhatov changed Strauss’ masterpiece beyond recognition. He transferred the action from the late 19 th century to the 1970s and from Vienna to a luxury cruiser. →
"I consider myself at home in theatres, if the action on stage is similar to that on screens," said Krzysztof Zanussi, the classic of the world cinema, at the presentation of his new show with the Russian Youth Theatre actors participating. →
Sergei Eisenstein’s film “Alexander Nevsky” will open a Russian culture festival in Tarbes in southern France. Also screening will be “Czar” directed by Pavel Lungin, “Everyone Will Die but I Will Stay” by Valeria Gay-Germanika, “Glamor” by Andrei Konchalovsky and “The Twelve” by Nikita Mikhalkov. →
Russian rock band U-Peter begins the final stage of its tour marking the 25 th anniversary of cult Russian rock band Nautilus Pompilius. During the tour which lasted for more than a year U-Peter played in many cities of Russia and the CIS. →
The organizers of the exhibition "Ferapontovo in Moscow" invite Moscow residents to cast aside reality and make a journey through space and time. A photo exhibition by Yuri Kholdin, recreating the works of the great Old Russian painter Dionysius has opened at the Kolomenskoye Museum Estate. →
English architect David Chipperfield has won an international contest with his project for the restoration of the Opera and Ballet Theatre building in Perm. If he manages to complete the project, this Ural city will have a building unequalled anywhere in Russia. →
A Brazil-based ballet school with the Moscow Bolshoi Theater will soon get its own stage in the Brazilian town of Joinville, Bolshoi Director-General Anatoly Ivanov told journalists on Tuesday. A total of 260 children currently go to what is now the one and only Bolshoi ballet school in Brazil, Ivanov said. →
"A Renaissance man, who is insuppressible in his wish to cover everything with his talent" this is how outstanding Russian theater director Yuri Lyubimov speaks about his friend, the prominent Italian screenwriter, poet, artist and sculptor Tonino Guerra. →
The Italian writer, poet, screenwriter and artist Tonino Guerra is celebrating his 90 th birthday. As a screenwriter Guerra has worked with the cream of the world’s film directors, including Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica. →
