| 02/06/2018 06:10 | Stravinsky Festival opening, Royal Festival Hall â delicacy and exuberance ( Financial Times )
Stravinsky's life had a momentum that propelled him inexorably forwards â from Imperial Russia, to jazz-era Paris, to 1940s Hollywood. Though receptive to ... Meanwhile, The Faun and Shepherdess, Op 2, a setting of erotic verses by Pushkin, was Stravinsky's wedding present to his wife. He later ... |
| 02/05/2018 20:50 | Kremlin scuttled hopes of businessmen lawbreakers to return from England to homeland ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
About 40 people attended the meeting, which took place in the center of Russian culture Pushkin House in London. According to The Bell, among the attendees were former Head of Evroset Evgeny Chichvarkin, ex-owner of Trust bank Ilya Iurov, co-founder of Mr. Doors Maxim Valetsky, co-owner of ... |
| 02/05/2018 03:10 | London: Presidential candidate Boris Titov meets with oligarchs who fled Russia ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
At least 40 people, many of whom are defendants in criminal cases in Russia and are on the international wanted list through Interpol, attended the event, which took place in the center of Russian culture Pushkin House. In particular, the meeting, which lasted for 4 hours, was attended by founder of ... |
| 02/04/2018 00:00 | Faculty Select Series resumes Tuesday with all-Tchaikovsky piano program ( The Banner-Graphic )
Although not a particularly accomplished pianist himself, Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most recognizable and beloved standards for the instrument. By the 1880s, his music was all the rage in Moscow. âPushkin is our all,â declared the influential critic Apollon Grigor'ev about Russia's greatest poet. |
| 02/03/2018 15:05 | Show at Pushkin State Museum Presents Works by Peredvizhniki and Impressionists ( BLOUIN ARTINFO )
The exhibition includes about 80 works of arts, including pieces by masters of the 19th and 20th centuries, paintings and graphic works by French and Russian artists from the holdings of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Further, it includes works by Peredvizhniki artists that are loaned from the ... |
| 02/02/2018 02:55 | Memories of Ukraine Part 7: The Beauty of Odessa ( Columbia Star )
Pushkin's Homeâa museum honoring Russia's most loved poet. The Opera House where Caruso and Shalyapin once sang. The Potemkin Steps where Czarist troops massacred citizens who supported mutineers from the Potemkin ship anchored in the bay. The Children's Palace, once an aristocrat's ... |
| 01/30/2018 22:50 | The Ministry of the prohibition of the future ( www.MICEtimes.asia (press release) )
In the XIX century, in the heyday of Russian culture in all genres, no Ministry of culture in Russia was not, and people guessed that Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky are great writers and managed to convince the entire world that he still read Russian classics. As well â Ministry of culture â and ... |
| 01/26/2018 06:55 | Ceremony to unveil Year of Japan in Russia set for late May ( TASS )
This year - 2018 - has been declared the Russia-Japan Year of Culture. Among this year's focal events is the exhibition of Japanese works created during the Edo Period (1603-1868) to be hosted by Moscow's Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibit will open in autumn and will feature etchings that ... |
| 01/19/2018 15:05 | Russian opera hacked in superb Onegin (VUE Weekly)
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| 01/12/2018 07:15 | Cubans love Russian classics, Soviet cinema, says deputy minister of culture ( TASS )
Like it was during the Soviet era, the Cubans are restarting studies of the Russian language. "It's definitely much better to read Pushkin, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky in the original," Rojas said. He said Cuba and Russia were considering two large cultural projects. "Number one, the commercial project of a ... |
| 01/10/2018 07:00 | Internationally acclaimed conductor featured at Island City Opera's Russian operas ( East Bay Times )
ALAMEDA â Island City Opera has a treat in store for local audiences â two one-act operas rarely heard outside Russia featuring acclaimed ... âThe opera is particularly fascinating because while Pushkin clearly identified with the native and spontaneous genius of Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov, ever ... |
| 01/08/2018 06:55 | Russian classic Onegin deserving of all the accolades ( Calgary Herald )
The excellence in this modern version of Onegin begins with how its creators Veda Hille and Amiel Gladstone condensed Alexandre Pushkin's epic poem into a rousing two-hour musical for seven actors and a three-piece orchestra. It's such an ingenious construction that we don't miss the possible cast ... |
| 01/04/2018 23:05 | 'The Retrospective' at Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts celebrates Chaim Soutine's work ( Blouinartinfo UK )
âChaim Soutine. The Retrospectiveâ the ongoing exhibition at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts marks as the first exhibition in Russia to celebrate the works of the Russian-French artist from the expressionist movement. Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) was one of the finest masters representing the ... |
| 12/29/2017 06:50 | Japan dreams of its dancers performing in Russia's Bolshoi Theater â culture official ( TASS )
Miyata also voiced hope that holding the Russian-Japanese Cross Year of Culture will strengthen ties between the two countries. During this event, several major exhibitions will be held as well as a large-scale circus and animation program. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts will take to Japan the ... |
| 12/26/2017 15:10 | Obituary - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, dashing baritone popular at the Edinburgh Festival ( HeraldScotland )
But many will also recall his singing of Russian songs, particularly those with lyrics by Pushkin: âHvorostovsky captures the Russian soulâ one critic wrote. Mr Hvorostovsky visited the Edinburgh Festival on several occasions. In 1992 he made his Scottish debut in a song recital in the Usher Hall finishing ... |
| 12/17/2017 07:05 | The Russian Villagers Living In The Shadow Of A Nuclear Tragedy ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
The Russian Villagers Living In The Shadow Of A Nuclear Tragedy ... Nearby is the Mayak nuclear installation, one of the largest nuclear complexes in the world, now run by Russian state nuclear regulator and operator ... Their house stands on [what was] Pushkin Street," Mukhamedyarov says. "On the ... |
| 12/16/2017 15:00 | St Petersburg: Discover the festive fun in Russia's fairytale city ( Express.co.uk )
Today, it's still known as a haven for the arts; it spawned composers such as Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, the Kirov ballet, and literary giants like Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Come wintertime, the city takes on a special quality. Russia celebrates Christmas on January 7, but it ... |
| 12/06/2017 15:15 | YVONNE LYSANDROU measures the strengths and weaknesses in an intimate version of ... ( Morning Star Online )
Robin Norton-Hale, the company's artistic director, has translated Tchaikovsky's version of Pushkin's Onegin into colloquial English with a distinctly feminist slant. Tatyana may have ... Yet much is lost in this reductionist version, transposed from 19th-century Russia to 1960s suburbia. A piano, violin cello ... |
| 12/05/2017 06:50 | Onegin is back with sumptuous songs and rollicking fun ( Straight.com )
Based on the poem by Aleksandr Pushkin and the opera by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. ... As the cast sings, âIt's Russia, it's winter, it's a long time ago. |
| 12/01/2017 23:05 | Samara, Saransk and Rostov-on-Don: the obscure Russian cities England fans might be visiting ( Telegraph.co.uk )
The city, twinned with Glasgow, boasts a number of tourist sites including Russian Orthodox churches, as well as the heritage of a raft of renowned authors, including Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Maxim Gorky and Alexander Pushkin. The Upside Down House - where, you guessed it, everything is upside ... |
