Here on these pages you'll find most useful information on: City news, playbills for the biggest and the most famous Opera and Ballet Houses of St. Petersburg, as well as information on newest exhibitions, festivals, sport events, conferences and seminars. Being fully informed on what is happening in St. Petersburg, you are going to be in the very midst of its interesting and bright life.

Theatres

MARIINSKY THEATRE actual playbill

MIKHAILOVSKY THEATRE Playbill

HERMITAGE THEATRE Schedule of Performances

Contests and Festivals

7th Music Festival of Nordic European Countries "NORDIC MUSIC - 2010"
1 Feb 2010 - 31 Dec 2010
Location: Shostakovich Academic Philharmonic (Glinka Small Hall), Academic Cappella, Evangelistic St. Peter and Paul Church
Organizers: Association for cooperation with Nordic countries "Norden"
Cultural Institutes of Denmark and Finland, Consulates of Nordic countries

8th Festival "HONORARY CITIZENS OF ST. PETERSBURG"
1 Mar 2010 - 30 Sep 2010
This festival celebrates those who left a mark on the city's history. The program is dedicated to academic and cultural leaders who not only ensured the modern standard of Russian scholarship, but also made priceless contributions to our city's culture.
Organizers: The "St. Petersburg's Heritage and Prospects" Regional Social Fund for the Support of Culture, Science, and Education

18th International Arts Festival "STARS OF THE WHITE NIGHTS"
21 May 2010 - 18 Jul 2010
As one of the year's most attended musical events, the festival has become a pilgrimage for all lovers of Russian culture. Distinguished conductors and instrumentalists are invited to participate. The festival will present operas, ballets, and symphonic programs.
Location: Mariinsky Theater
Organizers: Mariinsky Theater

8th International Festival "ROMANTIC TRUMPET- 2010"
1 May 2010 - 31 Oct 2010
The festival presents bright, talented trumpeters from all over the world, performing magnificent classic and jazz pieces.
Location: Shostakovich Academic Philharmonic (Glinka Small Hall)
Organizers: Cultural Foundation "St. Petersburg Academy of Trumpeters", Committee for Culture

4th St. Petersburg International Choir Festival
27 May 2010 - 15 Jun 2010
The culmination of the festival will be a grandiose open-air concert on "The Day of Russia".
Location: Shostakovich Academic Philharmonic, Academic Cappella, Alexandrinsky Theater, St. Isaac's Cathedral, Russian Museum, Mikhailovsky Garden
Organizers: Organizing Committee, Ministry of Culture, Presidential Executive Office, St. Petersburg City Government

15th International Festival "MUSICAL OLYMPUS"
25 May 2010 - 4 Jun 2010
The festival is an annual parade of the winners from the major international music competitions.
It provides music-lovers with the priceless opportunity to hear the world's best young musicians and to get acquainted with a wide range of schools and tendencies of contemporary performing art. About 25 young musicians of different specialties from 15 countries will perform, accompanied by well-known orchestras.
Location: Shostakovich Academic Philharmonic, Academic Cappella, Hermitage Theater, Mariinsky Theater Concert Hall Organizers: "Musical Olympus" Foundation

18th International Music Festival "ST. PETERSBURG PALACES"
May 2010 - Jun 2010
One of the most beautiful festivals of the Northern capital. In the parade halls of St. Petersburg's palaces, the best works of classical music of different epochs will be performed by outstanding Russian and international performers.
Location: Shostakovich Academic Philharmonic, Russian Museum, Hermitage Theater, Menshikov Palace, Grand Ekaterina Palace, Grand Peterhof Palace, Rumyantsev Mension, Gatc
Organizers: "St. Petersburg Palaces" International Music Festival Regional Public

3rd International Contest-Festival "THE IMPERIAL GARDENS OF RUSSIA"
28 May 2010 - 6 Jun 2010
The aim of this festival is the revival of traditions connected with the history of St. Petersburg's gardens, combined with modern tendencies in landscaping.
Location: Mikhailovsky Garden
Organizers: Russian Museum, Union of Gardeners of Russia, St. Petersburg Public Charitable Foundation of Palace Restoration

14th International Art Festival "SERGEY OSKOLKOV AND HIS FRIENDS"
1 Jun 2010 - 6 Jun 2010
Location: Composers' House, Mikhail Shemyakin's Foundation, Peterhof Museum-Re-serve
Organizers: St. Petersburg Composers' Union, Art Support Foundation "Sergey Oskolkov and His Friends"

5th Baltic Cultural Capitals Festival
1 Jun 2010 - 30 Jun 2010
Location: "Baltic House" Theater-Festival
Organizers: Baltic International Festivals Center Foundation, "Baltic House" Theater-Festival

17th International Jazz Festival "WHITE NIGHTS' SWING"
1 Jun 2010 - 31 Jul 2010
Location: Jazz-Philharmonic Hall, Arts Square
Organizers: Jazz-Philharmonic Hall , Committee for Culture

5th International Festival "MUSICAL COLLECTION"
4 Jun 2010 - 1 Jul 2010
Location: Shostakovich Academic Philharmonic
Organizers: Shostakovich Academic Philharmonic

8th International Festival and Competition "THREE CENTURIES OF CLASSICAL ROMANCE"
21 Jun 2010 - 4 Jul 2010
Location: Shostakovich Academic Philharmonic (Glinka Small Hall), Academic Cappella, Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory (Glazunov Concert Hall)
Organizers: "Art-Petersburg" Irina Bogacheva Public Charitable Foundation , Committee for Culture, Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory

6th Festival "WHITE NIGHT OF ROMANTIC MUSIC"
1Jun 2010 - 30Jun 2010
Location: Shostakovich Academic Philharmonic, Academic Cappella
Organizers: : "Art Assembly" Production Center, Committee for Culture

All-Russian Military and Historical Festival of Middle Ages Reenactment "RUSSIAN FORTRESS"
8Jul 2010 - 9Jul 2010
Location: "Korela" Local History Museum-Fortress, Town of Priozersk
Organizers: Committe for Culture of Leningrad Region "Korela" Local History Museum-Fortress, Town of Priozersk

10th International Empress Maria Fedorovna Flower Festival "IMPERIAL BOUQUET"
10 Jul 2010 - 11Jul 2010
Location: Pavlovsk Museum-Reserve
Organizers: "Festivals, Competitions, Holidays" Cultural Foundation, St. Petersburg's Center of Humanities Programs, Organizing Committee

"RUSSIAN EMPRESSES" Celebration Dedicated to Russian Empresses of the 19th Century
10 Jul 2010
Location: Peterhof Museum-Reserve
Organizers: Peterhof Museum-Reserve

8th International Folklore Blues Festival "DELTA OF THE NEVA"
10 Jul 2010
Location: Yusupov Garden
Organizers: St. Petersburg Union of Concerts Workers, "Delta of Neva" Organization

10th International Festival "MUSIC OF THE GREAT HERMITAGE"
10 Jul 2010 - 12J ul 2010
Location: Great Courtyard of the Hermitage, Academic Cappella
Organizers: Hermitage Museum, Hermitage Music Academy Foundation

6th Festival of Smith Art "GOLD DWITAVR - 2010"
v 14 Jul 2010 - 18 Jul 2010
Location: Mikhailovsky Garden, Peter and Paul Fortress, Park "300 years of St. Petersburg"
Organizers: Guild of Smiths and Artists of metal of St. Petersburg and the Northwest

"THE WIND'S PLAYTHING" Festivities Dedicated to Catherine the Great's Favorite Italian Greyhound Zemira
24 Jul 2010
Location: Peterhof Museum-Reserve
Organizers: Peterhof Museum-Reserve

8th International Festival of Choral Art "SINGING WORLD"
29 Jul 2010 - 4 Aug 2010
Location: Academic Cappella, Kazansky Cathedral, Evangelistic St. Peter and Paul Church
Organizers: "Inter Aspect" Creative Union, Committee for Culture

9th International Sand Sculpture Festival
1 Jul 2010 - 30 Aug 2010
Location: Beach of Peter and Paul Fortress
Organizers: Museum of the History of St. Petersburg ,"Art-Assembly" Production Center

Exhibitions

"SEVRES PORCELAIN OF THE 20th CENTURY"
16 Apr 2010 - 5 Sep 2010
Location: Hermitage Museum

"FROM MEISSEN TO TSARSKOE SELO"
May 2010
Location: Tsarskoe Selo Museum-Reserve

"THE EXHIBITION OF NEW ARRIVALS"
May 2010
Location: Popov Central Museum of Communications

"I WRITE THIS LETTER IN TEARS…"
Igor LEBEDEV, Sergey SHITOV, Oleg NIKOLAEV. Photographs, documents, video. In commemoration of the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War
7 May 2010 - 21 May 2010
Location: Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House

An exhibition dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Joseph BRODSKY
24 May 2010 - 27 Jun 2010
Location: Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House

Pavel SALTZMAN (1912-1985) (Israel). Drawings, paintings
31 May 2010 - 13 Jun 2010
Location: Scientific-research Museum of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts. Brodsky Museum Apartment

The Tsarskoe Selo tercentennial exhibition
1 Jun 2010 - 30 Jun 2010
Location: Tsarskoe Selo Museum-Reserve

"LIFE a LA RUSSE"
1 Jun 2010 - 30 Jun 2010
Location: Tsarskoe Selo Museum-Reserve

"FLOWERS: A SYMBOL OF CELEBRATION"
1 Jun 2010 - 30 Jun 2010
Location: Tsarskoe Selo Museum-Reserve

"NATIONAL HERITAGE"
1 Jun 2010 - 30 Jun 2010
Location: Tsarskoe Selo Museum-Reserve

"ALEXEY KOROVIN AND KONSTANTIN KOROVIN: DIALOGUE 100 YEARS LATER" (France)
28 Jun 2010 - 11 July 2010
Location: Scientific-research Museum of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts. Brodsky Museum Apartment

"WE'RE GOING TO TSARSKOE SELO! OR THE UNKNOWN TOWN OF PUSHKIN".
Vladimir URZHUMTSEV. Photographs, maps, documents. Part of the Tsarskoe Selo tercentennial celebration
1Jul 2010 - 30Jul 2010
Location: Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House

"THE SWISS STAINED-GLASS WINDOWS of the 16th - 18th CENTURIES"
6 Jul 2010 - 3 Jul 2010
Location: Hermitage Museum

"VILLAGE OF ARTISTS"
1 Jul 2010 - 31 Aug 2010
Location: "Manege" Central Exhibition Hall

Nail SAGIROV. Paintings
26 Jul 2010 - 8 Aug 2010
Location: Scientific-research Museum of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts. Brodsky Museum Apartment

8th International Festival of Experimental Art
Aug 2010
Location: "Manege" Central Exhibition Hall

"PETER'S ACADEMY"
1 Aug 2010 - 30 Sep 2010
Location: "Manege" Central Exhibition Hall

Vladimir SMIRNOV. Paintings
9 Aug 2010 - 5 Aug 2010
Location: Scientific-research Museum of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts. Brodsky Museum Apartment

Conferences and Seminars

19th International Banking Congress
May 2010
Organizers: St. Petersburg Foundation for Support of International Banking Congresses

3rd International Scientific Conference of St. Petersburg Sister Cities in BRIC
May 2010
Organizers: Committee for External Affairs

19th Annual Russian American Seminar
May 2010
Organizers: Department of International Relations of the St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg Association for International Cooperation, Consulate General of the United States of America

"DIALOGUE OF SLAVONIC CULTURES" International Conference
May 2010
Organizers: St. Petersburg Association for International Cooperation, St. Petersburg State University

10th Likhachev International Scientific Readings
14 May 2010 - 15 May 2010
Organizers: St. Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences

"NEW DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND TREATMENT METHODS IN THE FIELD OF CARDIOVASCULAR, BLOOD AND ENDOCRINOLOGICAL DISEASES"
International Scientific Conference 20 May 2010 - 22 May 2010
Organizers: Almazov Federal Center of Heart, Blood and Endocrinology

"WHITE NIGHTS" 16th Ophthalmologic Congress
31 May 2010 - 3 Jun 2010
Organizers: Center of ophthalmology of Russian Federal medical and biologic agency

2nd International Congress of Peter's Cities
1 Jun 2010 Organizers: St. Petersburg Government "

DIFFRACTION DAYS - 2010" Annual International Conference
8 Jun 2010 - 11 Jun 2010
Organizers: Euler International Mathematical Institute 14th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum
17 Jun 2010 - 19 Jun 2010
Organizers: Foundation "St. Petersburg International Economic Forum"

19th Summer St. Petersburg Meeting on Mathematical Analysis
5 Jul 2010 - 10 Jul 2010
Organizers: Euler International Mathematical Institute

2nd M. Sh. Birman conference on Spectral Theory
12 Jul 2010 - 16 Jul 2010
Organizers: Euler International Mathematical

Sport Events

Open Russian Club Show Jumping Cup, "MINITEX" and Open Russian Club Dressage Cup
1May 2010 - 4May 2010

International Competitive Dance Tournament, "ST. PETERSBURG GOVERNOR'S CUP"
May 2010

International Artistic Gymnastics Tournament, "ALEXANDER DITYATIN CUP"
May 2010

International Curling Tournament, "THE ST. PETERSBURG TROPHY"
May 2010

International Sabre Tournament, "WHITE NIGHTS"
May 2010

European Tae Kwon Do Championship (WTF)
10May 2010 - 16May 2010

Fencing World Cup Stage - F.I.E. Grand Prix, "ST. PETERSBURG FOIL"
20.05.2010 - 27.05.2010

International Chess Festival, "WHITE NIGHTS"
1Jun 2010 - 30Jun 2010

International Regatta, "SAILS OF THE WHITE NIGHTS - PALACE CONGRESS CUP"
8Jun 2010 - 13Jun 2010

21st International Marathon, "WHITE NIGHTS"
27Jun 2010 Open European Sailing Competition - "SPORTBOAT" Class - 2010
28Jun 2010 - 15Jul 2010

International Checkers Tournament, "WHITE NIGHTS"
1Jul 2010 - 30Jul 2010

World Aquatic Motor Sports Championship, "24 HOURS OF ST. PETERSBURG"
3Jul 2010 - 4Jul 2010

World Aquatic Motor Sports Championship Stage for F-1 Racing
10Jul 2010 - 11Jul 2010

All-Russian Regatta, "ST. PETERSBURG SAILING WEEK"
12Aug 2010 - 22Aug 2010

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