Don Quixote, Free Conservatory Concerts and a Peter Bogdanovich Movie ?€“ What to Do in Moscow on Monday

By The Moscow Times

June 7, 2015

Moscow Conservatory Graduates in concert. Conservatory Great Hall. Wikicommons

Don Quixote: a ballet by Ludwig Minkus based on Cervantes' novel about the adventures of a country gentleman who sets out to right the world's wrongs. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater, 17 Bolshaya Dmitrovka. Metro Tverskaya, Chekhovskaya. 495-723-7325. At 7 p.m.

Drillalians/Sverliitsy. Episode One: Boris Yukhananov stages a five-part opera series based on his own tale about the mystical Land of Drillalia that exists simultaneously in the past, present and future. Performed by the N'Caged Vocal Ensemble, the Questa Musica Ensemble and the Moscow Ensemble of Contemporary Music. Episode One is set to music by Dmitry Kurlyandsky. English subtitles. Stanislavsky Electrotheater, 23 Tverskaya Street, Metro Tverskaya, Pushkinskaya, Mayakovskaya. 495-699-7621. At 8 p.m.

Moscow Conservatory Graduates in concert. Conservatory Great Hall, 13 Bolshaya Nikitskaya Ulitsa. Metro Pushkinskaya, Biblioteka Imeni Lenina. 495-629-9401. At 6 p.m. Free admission.

Student Concert. Conservatory Rachmaninov Hall. 11 Bolshaya Nikitskaya Ulitsa. Metro Pushkinskaya, Biblioteka Imeni Lenina. 495-629-9401. At 7 p.m. Free admission.

Revival (Vozrozhdeniye): Dom Nashchokina Gallery features works by Vladimir Lyubarov, Tatyana Nazarenko, Ivan Lubennikov, Natalya Nesterova, Lev Tabenkin, Igor Obrosov and others, through June at the Art Severina Gallery. Located at 3/11 Ulitsa Pokrovka. Metro Kitai-Gorod. Ticket office open noon to 7 p.m. 965-395-6474. www.domnaschokina.ru.

Foreign-Language Movies

Testament of Youth (Vospominaniye o Budushchem, 2014): A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I. Directed by James Kent, stars Emily Watson, Colin Morgan and Joanna Scanlan. Pioner, 21 Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Metro Kutuzovskaya. 499-240-5240. At 12:05 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

She's Funny That Way (Miss Perepolokh, 2014): Peter Bogdanovich's comedy about a married Broadway director who falls for a prostitute-turned-actress and seeks to advance her career. Stars Jennifer Aniston, Imogen Poots and Quentin Tarantino.

Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya. In the Arkadia mall, 8 Sredny Ovchinnikovsky Pereulok. Metro Novokuznetskaya. 495-916-9169. At 11:25 a.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

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