Moscow on Wednesday: Tales, Traviata, and Jazz

By The Moscow Times

Oct. 6, 2015

La Traviata: Alla Sigalova's excellent modernized staging of Verdi's opera uses Yevgeny Kolobov's boldly edited score of Verdi's original music. Performed in Italian with Russian subtitles. Novaya Opera. Daniil Kochetkov / Novaya Opera

Tale of Tales: This Italian-French-British fantasy horror film, directed by Matteo Garrone and starring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones and John C. Reilly, is based on collections of tales by Neapolitan poet and courtier Giambattista Basile which form the earliest versions of famous fables like "Rapunzel," "Sleeping Beauty" and "Cinderella." In English; Russian subtitles.

Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya. In the Arkadia mall, 8 Sredny Ovchinnikovsky Pereulok. Metro Novokuznetskaya. 495-916-9169. At 1:20 and 10:15 p.m.

Britten's War Requiem performed by the Yurlov Capella and the Moscow Synodal Choir. Soloists Svetlana Kasyan (soprano), Dominic Armstrong (tenor), Stephan Genz (baritone), conductor Richard Armstrong. Conservatory Great Hall. 13 Bolshaya Nikitskaya Ulitsa. Metro Pushkinskaya, Biblioteka Imeni Lenina. 495-629-9401. At 7 p.m.

La Traviata: Alla Sigalova's excellent modernized staging of Verdi's opera uses Yevgeny Kolobov's boldly edited score of Verdi's original music. Performed in Italian with Russian subtitles. Novaya Opera. 3 Karetny Ryad. Metro Mayakovskaya, Chekhovskaya. 495-694-0868. At 7 p.m.

Stanley Clarke: American jazz musician and composer in concert. Dom Muzyki Svetlanov Hall. Moscow International House of Music, 52 Kosmodamianskaya Naberezhnaya, Bldg. 8. Metro Paveletskaya. 495-730-4350, reservations 495-730-1011. At 7 p.m.

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