Two operas have recently been revived at the Paris National Opera: Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’ and Puccini’s ‘Tosca’. Being dramatically different from each other in conception, design, settings and approaches to stage acting, they give material for comparison between...

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Sebastian Fagerlund is a Finnish composer who has written chamber, orchestral and operatic work during the last two decades. He came to prominence in 2006 after the premiere and consequent performances of his Clarinet Concerto performed by...

Photo: Valentin Baranovsky, ©️ Mariinsky Theatre

A grandiose celebration of the 175th Jubilee since Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov birth was held at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg in March-April 2019. With St Petersburg Conservatory (which is just across the road from...

Photo: Sakari Viika/Finnish National Opera

The Finnish National Opera is a beautiful building (built in 1993) standing on the bank of Teelenlahti gulf in Helsinki, and, as in this city everything is relatively close, going there by foot one can pass all other buildings...

В конце октября-начале ноября 2018 в прошла мировая премьера нового британско-американского фильма о легендарной группе Queen «Богемная рапсодия», но вплоть до текущей недели сеансы продолжались в центре Лондона. За время проката фильм заработал более 896 миллионов дол...

The British-American film “Bohemian Rhapsody”, launched in October 2018, became a sensational success in the world film industry and gained dozens of awards, including Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and others. The film earned titles of Outstanding British Film of the Year...

Sakari Oramo is the Chief Conductor of BBC Symphony Orchestra (he has been in this position from February 2012), and appears with BBCSO both in their winter residence at Barbican Hall and in their summer residence in Royal Albert Hall during the BBC Proms season. Sakar...

The exhibition in Russian Museum, St Petersburg traces how we perceive the history of the 20th century through the figure of German philosopher.

A very interesting exhibition tracing the portrayal of Karl Marx in Russian and Soviet art from the beginning of the 20th cen...

Юлия Савиковская родилась в Санкт-Петербурге. В 1995-1997 гг. занималась в Театре Юношеского Творчества (ТЮТ, г. Санкт-Петербург). Пишет пьесы с 2008 года. Первая пьеса, «Неудачная репетиция» (2008 г), поставлена в любительской студии г.Москвы, апрель 2009 (реж. Вадим...

We met with Hannu Lintu at the Helsinki Music Centre before his first rehearsal of Mahler’s Symphony No.8 in August 2018 (it was broadcast by Finnish television around the world and was part of Helsinki Festival 2018), over coffee and tasty Karelian pies. Hannu project...