In March the Mariinsky Theatre will give its most ambitious tour in recent years on the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre

In March the Mariinsky Theatre will give its most ambitious tour in recent years on the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. As part of a festival of the operas of Richard Wagner, Valery Gergiev and the company will twice present updated productions of the tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung. The first performances will take place from 5 to 9 March, and the second cycle from 13 to 16 March. The Wagnerian saga returns to the Bolshoi Theatre for the first time in 20 years

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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

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. So, here is the

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In March the Mariinsky Theatre will give its most ambitious tour in recent years on the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre

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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

Frederic Leighton

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Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s