Puppini Sisters, Guitar Virtuosos and Three Sisters – What to do in Moscow on the Weekend

By The Moscow Times

March 19, 2015

The Puppini Sisters: English vocal trio performs vintage swing pop. Crocus City Hall.

Les Arts Florissants Ensemble and Le Jardin des Voix in a concert of Baroque music. Conductor William Christie. Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. 4/31 Triumfalnaya Ploshchad. Metro Mayakovskaya. 495-232-0400. Fri. at 7 p.m.

Young Opera Voices of the World: Kristina Mkhitaryan (soprano), Yulia Mazurova (mezzo-soprano), Owen McCausland (tenor), Ashley Riches (baritone), Elisabeth Teige (soprano), Daniel Giulianini (bass-baritone), Alexei Botnarciuc (bass) and the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra in a concert of arias. Bolshoi Theater New Stage. 1 Teatralnaya Ploshchad. Metro Teatralnaya. 495-455-5555. Fri. at 7 p.m.

Guitar Virtuosos: Anabel Montesinos and Marco Tamayo Duet perform Bach, Rodrigo, Tarrega, Granados, Ravel, Debussy and others. Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (for details, see above). Sat. at 7 p.m.

Cult of Youth and King Dude: Punk-influenced psychedelic neofolk from Brooklyn and dark folk from Thomas Jefferson Cowgill. Teatr Club. 20 Staraya Basmannaya Ulitsa. M. Kurskaya, Baumanskaya. 495-228-2080, teatrclub.com. In English. Sat. at 7 p.m.

The Puppini Sisters: English vocal trio performs vintage swing pop. Crocus City Hall. 65-66 MKAD. Metro Myakinino. Sun. at 7 p.m.

Three Sisters (Tri Sestry): Pyotr Fomenko's tragic rendition of Anton Chekhov's classic play. English, German and French subtitles available. Fomenko Studio New Stage. 29 Naberezhnaya Tarasa Shevchenko. Metro Kutuzovskaya. 499-249-1921. Sun. at 7 p.m.

Foreign-Language Movies

Film Delicatessen: A selection of 2014 Cannes Film Festival winning and nominated shorts. 35MM. 47/24 Ulitsa Pokrovka. M. Krasniye Vorota, Kurskaya. 495-780-9142. In various languages; Russian subtitles. Fri. at 9:15 p.m.

Irish Doc: Living in a Coded Land (2014): Pat Collins' poetic essay makes unexpected links between events and locations, history and contemporary life. Center of Documentary Cinema. In English; Russian subtitles. 2 Zubovsky Bulvar, Bldg. 7. Metro Park Kultury. 495-637-7919, www.cdkino.ru. Sat. at 5 p.m.

Irish Doc: Blood Fruit (2014): Sinead O'Brien's feature documentary focusing on the Dunnes Stores strikers in 1980's Dublin. Center of Documentary Cinema (see above for details). In English; Russian subtitles. Sun. at 7 p.m.

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