From 8 to 22 August, the ninth international festival "Opera for All" is being held in Saint Petersburg

From 8 to 22 August, the ninth international festival "Opera for All" is being held in Saint Petersburg. On 12 August, in the Kirov Central Park of Culture and Leisure on Yelagin Island, Alexander Dargomyzhsky's "Rusalka" will be presented in a production by Ilya Arkhipov. On 16 August, on Rastrelli Square in front of the Smolny Cathedral, Vincenzo Bellini's "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" will be staged, directed by Dmitry Otyakovsky. On 22 August, guests of the festival will see Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" on the parade ground of the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo, in a production by Viktor Vysotsky, with Maestro Fabio Mastrangelo on the conductor's podium and the Northern Symphony orchestra of the Music Hall Theatre.

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From 8 to 22 August, the ninth international festival "Opera for All" is being held in Saint Petersburg

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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