Even supermarkets are running Black Friday specials. Today is Black Friday, and if you want to buy anything on sale, and if you have patience with crowds - hit the malls or sit at your computer and order online. In fact, Russia doesn’t even celebrate Christmas until Jan. Russia doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving, and hence Russia doesn’t have a day off the day after Thanksgiving, which is the kick-off for Christmas shopping. There is no reason for Russia to have Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. Or if you can’t wait that long, you can watch the original film version of the opera online here. You can listen to a fascinating discussion about the opera, the performers, the film, 1980s Soviet culture and why this was such a big hit. 2 at 7:30 p.m., the Voznesensky Center is showing the film “Juno and Avos: The Hallelujah of Love.” This documentary by Andrei Zheleznyakov is a film-about-a-film – about the making of the film version of the rock opera in 1983, directed by Zakharov and starring Karachentsov, Alexander Abdulov, and Irina Alfyorova. Tickets are available on the Lenkom site here and on other ticket platforms.įinally, on Dec. Originally directed by Mark Zakharov, today it stars Dmitry Pevstov and Alexandra Volkova. 30 you can see a revival of the show at the theater where it premiered: Lenkom. You can read more about it and register your visit here.Īfter entering into the spirit of these star-crossed lovers at the Kazan Train Station, on Nov. First head over to the Kazan Train Station where the Voznesensky Center has organized a remarkable exhibition about the rock opera, with bits of scenery, sketches of costumes, and much more.
This week you can immerse yourself in world of Nikolai and Conchita. The show was a tremendous hit in Russia and around the world, where it was warmly received in a pre-glasnost glow of good feelings. The main roles were performed by Nikolai Karachentsov and Yelena Shanina. When Conchita learns the news, she enters a convent, where she spends the rest of her life. Although she is promised to another, they fall in love and secretly become engaged, and Rezanov sails home to ask the tsar’s permission to marry a Catholic.
There he meets and falls in love with Conchita, the daughter of the Spanish governor of California. In Voznesensky’s telling of a tale that had some basis in fact, in 1806 the nobleman Nikolai Rezanov leads a Russian naval expedition to California on the ships Juno and Avos. “Juno and Avos” was written by Alexei Rybnikov with a libretto by poet Andrei Voznesensky, based on a poem called “Avos” he wrote in 1970. And not only was it an opera involving rock music, it told the tale of love between a Russian and an American, which was unthinkable - even if it took place in the distant past. In 1981 the Russian theater world experienced something of a creative earthquake: the first Russian rock opera was performed at the Lenkom Theater. And if your skates need to be sharpened before you start the season - no worries. The rink will have special events for holidays, including New Year’s, Student Day, and Valentine’s Day and be open, weather permitting, until Feb. You can either rent skates or bring your own, and there are almost a dozen places for a snack or meal.
On arrival, your temperature will be checked, but at present there is no QR code requirement. Tickets must be purchased online ahead of time for a particular time slot. on weekends and holidays, but note: there is a break from 3 to 5 p.m. The rink is the largest in Moscow, if not the world, at 53,000 square meters (that’s 570,487 square feet or almost the size of 12 American football fields). or at least the rink at VDNKh Park opens, which is a sure sign that winter is here.