Moscow on Monday: Scary Movies, Choral Music, and Swan Lake at the Kremlin

By The Moscow Times

Oct. 18, 2015

Crimson Peak: Guillermo del Toro's romantic Gothic horror film set in a crumbling mansion in northern England in the late 19th century. Young author Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) marries Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston) but discovers that her charming new husband is not who he appears to be. In English; Russian subtitles.

Pioner. 21 Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Metro Kutuzovskaya. 499-240-5240. At 7:15 p.m. and 12:20 a.m.

Autumn Choral Festival: Kastalsky Moscow Men's Choir, the Cecilia Ensemble (U.S.), the Moscow International Choir and others in concert. Conservatory Great Hall. 13 Bolshaya Nikitskaya Ulitsa. Metro Pushkinskaya, Biblioteka Imeni Lenina. 495-629-9401. At 7 p.m.

Swan Lake (Lebedinoye Ozero): a meticulous staging of Tchaikovsky's lyrical ballet about a princess who is turned into a swan by a magician and then rescued at the stroke of midnight by a prince. A revival of Alexander Gorsky's pre-revolutionary choreography. Kremlin Ballet production. Kremlin Palace. Moscow Kremlin, the Troitsky Gate entrance. Metro Alexandrovsky Sad. Ticket office at 1 Ulitsa Vozdvizhenka. Metro Borovitskaya. 495-628-5232. kremlinpalace.org. At 7 p.m.

Anna Korolyova and Jump: jazz, funk, ethno jazz. Forte. 18 Bolshaya Bronnaya Ulitsa. Metro Tverskaya, Pushkinskaya. 495-694-0881. At 8 p.m.

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