Sherlock Holmes, Pavel Kogan and The Theory of Everything ?€” What to Do in Moscow on Wednesday

By The Moscow Times

March 3, 2015

Sherlock Holmes: Contemporary dance detective show set to Irish folk music, compositions by Handel and Schubert. Choreography by Yelena Bogdanovich. Natalya Sats Children's Musical Theater. 5 Prospekt Vernadskogo. Metro Universitet. 495-930-5177. At 5 p.m.

Golden Mask: Aida: Verdi's opera about the forbidden love between an Ethiopian slave girl and an Egyptian army commander. Directed by Peter Stein who intends to change the show from a pompous show into an intimate psychological drama focusing mainly on the heated love triangle. Performed in Italian. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater. 17 Bolshaya Dmitrovka. Metro Tverskaya, Chekhovskaya. 495-723-7325. 7 p.m.

Pavel Kogan Orchestra performs Glazunov's Symphony No. 10 and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3. Pavel Kogan, a leading Russian violinist who now leads the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, will conduct. Conservatory Great Hall. 13 Bolshaya Nikitskaya Ulitsa. Metro Pushkinskaya, Biblioteka Imeni Lenina. 495-629-9401. At 7 p.m.

Heartbreak House (Dom, Gde Razbivayutsya Serdtsa): Yevgeny Kamenkovich's staging of George Bernard Shaw's "fantasy in the Russian manner." English and French subtitles available. Fomenko Studio New Stage. 29 Naberezhnaya Tarasa Shevchenko. Metro Kutuzovskaya. 499-249-1921. At 7 p.m.

Fashion and Style in Photography: Cristina Lucas' "La Liberte Raisonnee," Igor Samolyot's "Herbarium," Jutta Strohmaier's "Passengers," Ivan Lungin's "Exodus," Marie Bovo's "Subak" and other exhibits, to March 29 as part of Moscow's ninth Fashion and Style Biennale, this year's theme centres around the lines between the real and the imaginary. Located at 17 Yermolayevsky Pereulok. Metro Mayakovskaya. 495-231-3660. From Noon till 8 p.m.

Foreign-Language Films

The Theory of Everything (Vselennaya Stivena Khokinga, 2014): James Marsh's drama about the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife. Stars Oscar-winning Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones and Tom Prior. Pioner. 21 Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Metro Kutuzovskaya. 499-240-5240. At 7:10 and 9:15 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

See the calendar for more events.

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