Demons, Angelic Voices and Hip-Hop Fashion – What to Do in Moscow on the Weekend

By The Moscow Times

June 18, 2015

Park Live: American alternative rock band Incubus and British rock band Muse. Otkrytiye Arena.

The Petty Demon (Melky Bes): Alexander Zhurbin's opera based on Fyodor Sologub's novel. Pokrovsky Chamber Musical Theater, 17 Nikolskaya Ulitsa. Metro Lubyanka, Ploshchad Revolyutsii, Teatralnaya. 495-606-7008. At 7 p.m.

Olympia: Olga Mukhina's family saga follows changes in Russia from the 1970s to the present. Staged by Yevgeny Tsyganov. English subtitles available. Fomenko Workshop Theater, 30/32 Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Metro Kutuzovskaya. 499-249-1921. At 7 p.m.

Ave Maria: Yana Ivanilova (soprano) and Fyodor Stroganov (organ) perform Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart and Schubert. Sts. Peter and Paul Evangelical Lutheran Cathedral, 7/10 Starosadsky Pereulok. Metro Kitai-Gorod. 495-624-5820. At 8 p.m.

Pyotr Shabanov (countertenor) and Garri Marianna Vysotskaya (organ) perform Bach, Charpentier, Vivaldi, Handel, Frescobaldi and Mozart. St. Mary's Cathedral, 27/13 Malaya Gruzinskaya Ulitsa. Metro Barrikadnaya, Ulitsa 1905 Goda. 495-252-4051. At 8:30 p.m.

Park Live: American alternative rock band Incubus and British rock band Muse. Otkrytiye Arena, 69 Volokolamskoye Shosse. Metro Tushinskaya. 495-111-1922. At 5 p.m.

The Bolotnaya Square Case (Bolotnoye Delo): Yelena Gremina's documentary staging about the legal aftermath of "mass disorders" that took place on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. Teatr.doc Na Razgulyaye, 3 Spartakovskaya Ulitsa, Bldg. 3. Metro Kurskaya, bus No. 40 to Ploshchad Razgulyai. 8-919-765-8402, teatrdoc.ru. At 8 p.m.

Foreign-language Movies

Fresh Dressed (Na Stile, 2015): Sacha Jenkins makes his directorial debut with a documentary examining the rise and fall of fashion lines influenced by hip-hop music.

35MM, 47/24 Ulitsa Pokrovka. Metro Krasniye Vorota, Kurskaya. 495-780-9142. At 10:30 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Center of Documentary Cinema, 2 Zubovsky Bulvar, Bldg. 7. Metro Park Kultury. 495-637-7919, cdkino.ru. At 9 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Pioner, 21 Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Metro Kutuzovskaya. 499-240-5240. At 5:30 and 11:35 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya In the Arkadia mall, 8 Sredny Ovchinnikovsky Pereulok. Metro Novokuznetskaya. 495-916-9169. At 3:20 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

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