Australia’s Sydney Symphony Orchestra has appointed the renowned Russian conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy as its new principal conductor.
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April 11, 2007World famous Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, who heads the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre, has been awarded Royal Order of the Legion of Honour, the French Culture Ministry said on Monday.
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April 2, 2007Russia this week marks the 80th birthday of cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich with a commemorative concert and a Kremlin reception, The Associated Press reports.
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March 27, 2007Russia’s oldest theater has installed equipment to block mobile phone signals in a desperate attempt to force patrons to stop taking calls during performances.
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March 2, 2007Almost all the tickets for The Scorpions concert that will take place on March 2 in the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia have been sold.
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February 28, 2007President Vladimir Putin has awarded renowned cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich with a state medal, The Associated Press news agency reported on Monday quoting an official release by the Kremlin press service.
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February 27, 2007Those who appreciate films that are weird and wonderful, or just long and mostly silent, will be happy to learn that U.S. artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney is participating in the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.
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February 22, 2007British musicians Ian Brown and Brett Anderson are not the type of people who Russian filmmakers typically approach to do their movie soundtracks.
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Three Hollywood studios plan to make a film about Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian spy poisoned last November in London.
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January 19, 2007
A book co-written by Alexander Litvinenko, the murdered former spy, which alleges that the Russian government was secretly behind bombings that killed 300 people, may be made into a film, The Sunday Times reports.
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December 25, 2006
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