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6th International Christmas Chamber Music Festival "Just Friends"

Dates: January 10-23, 1998

The winter classical ballet season on the stage of Mussorgsky Opera and Ballet Theater

Dates: December 9, 1997 - February 3, 1998
Venue: Mussorgsky Opera and Ballet Theater
Famous classic performances

The exhibition of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele

Dates: January 29 - March 26, 1998
Venue: The State Hermitage     See other exhibitions

7th International Musical Festival "Christmas Meetings in the Northern Palmira"

Dates: December 25, 1997 - January 11,1998
Venues and participants: Shostakovich Large Hall and Glinka Small Hall of St.Petersburg Philharmonic, The House of Concert Workers of Russia, Municipal Cultural center (formerly Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace), The House of Composers, The House of Ilyina-Kochneva, All- Russian Alexander Pushkin Museum, Theater and Musical Art Museum, State Museum-Reserve Tsarskoe Selo (Pushkin), Herzen Pedagogical University and others
  Classical music performed by famous groups and soloists from Belgium, Great Britain, USA, Latvia at the best Concert Halls of St.Petersburg

4th Christmas Festival of Children's Creative Works "Christmas in Saint- Petersburg"

Dates: December 24, 1997 - January 11, 1998
Venue: Children's Philharmonic Hall
Performances of the best children's collective works in Saint-Petersburg, the exhibition of children's creative activities devoted to Christmas

Second International Christmas Film Festival

Dates: December 30, 1997 - January 10, 1998
Venues: cinemas throughout the city
Filmmakers from Italy, Netherlands, Great Britain, USA, Russia, Denmark, Germany, Poland, France participate in festival, free of charge screening of Chinese films

Celebration of 125th Anniversary of Fyodor Shalyapin's Birthday - Shalyapin Festival

Dates: January 19 - February 8,1998
Venues: Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theater, Shostakovich Large Hall of St.Petersburg Philharmonic, "St.Petersburg-Opera"
  Gala concerts of world musical classics starts at the Mariinsky Theater with opera “The Flying Dutchman” by Wagner. Its Jan. 20 premiere (conductor — Valery Gergiev) falls on the second night of the scheduled Shalyapin Festival. Most of the festival's 20 performances will be closed to the heart of Shalyapin's musical artistry ("Boris Godunov" given at both the Mariinsky Theater and the St.Petersburg-Opera). The festival features performances by the Mussorgsky Theater of Opera and Ballet, the St.Petersburg State Capella and the St.Petersburg Philharmonic and will host a number of internationally acclaimed basses.

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FEBRUARY 1998

Exhibition "English Art from the Hermitage Collection"

Dates: February 3 - April 26, 1998
Venue: The State Hermitage     See other exhibitions

British Art Treasures from Russian Imperial Collections

Dates: February 3 onwards
Venue: Hermitage Theater
The exhibition returns from its 1997 tour of the USA and opens in the display rooms with a concert of British music

Days of Scotland in St.Petersburg

Dates: February 7, 1998
Various locations
Including celebration of Robert Burns' birthday and schools competition "What do you know about Scotland?"

Concerts dedicated to Gershwin's 100 years Anniversary

Dates: February 10-15, 1998
Venues: St.Petersburg Shostakovich Philharmonic, St.Petersburg State Capella, Estrady Theater, Smolny Cathedral, Municipal Cultural Centre of St.Petersburg, St.Petersburg Cinema House, St.Petersburg House of Composers, Jazz Philharmonic Hall, JFC-JAZZ-CLUB
  Concerts of classic music from USA, Russian, France, Spain, Canada, Cuba; symphony orchestras, vocal-instrumental ensembles, and jazz stars

The Golden Age of Lute Music

Dates: February 18-19, 1998
Various locations
Lutenist Brian Wright will give a master-class and concert of English music

"My Pushkin". Festival of the Children's Theater's collectives

Dates: February 1998 - May 1998
Venues: Children's Creative Activity House and Culture Centers

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MARCH 1998

Exhibition "Photographer's Way: Photographs by Irwing Penn"

Dates: March 1, 1998 onwards
Venue: The State Hermitage     See other exhibitions

Exhibition "Henri Matisse and Prominent Danish Collectors"

Dates: March 3 - May 16, 1998
Venue: The State Hermitage     See other exhibitions

International Festival of Arts "From Avant-Garde to the Present Day". Festival of contemporary classical music

Dates: March 9-23, 1998
Venues: St.Petersburg Shostakovich Philharmonic, Smolny Cathedral, the House of Composers, St.Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, Jazz Philharmonic Hall, Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theater

Festival dedicated to Rudolf Nuriev

Date: March 17
Venues: Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theater, St.Petersburg Museum of Theater & Musical Art

3rd Vasily Andreev International Competition for Young Musicians Playing Folk Instruments

Dates: March 22-29, 1998
Venues: St.Petersburg Arts Lyceum, St. Petersburg State Capella

9th International Musical Children's Festival "Ode to Joy"

Dates: March 24-30, 1998
Organizers: St.Petersburg Philharmonic, Composers Union of St.Petersburg

7th International Youth Music Festival “Virtuosi of the Year 2000”

Dates: March 25-31, 1998
Venue: Glinka Small Philharmonic Hall, Municipal Cultural Center (Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace), Children's Philharmonic Hall
  Laureates of the festival will be invited to the Gala Festival to be held in March 2000 in which all the winners of annual festivals and competitions "Virtuosi of the year 2000" will participate

Exhibition "Christians in the Orient"

Dates: March 29 - September 29, 1998
Venue: The State Hermitage     See other exhibitions

3rd Annual International festival-seminar of ecological films

When? March
Venues: cinemas throughout the city

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APRIL 1998

Exhibition "Dimensions Variable"

Dates: April 6-7, 1998
Venue: Russian Museum
Exhibition of leading edge new British art to be held at Russian Museum, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in 1998     See other exhibitions

"The Living Language of Sculpture" Exhibition

Dates: April 10 - June 30, 1998
Venue: The State Hermitage     See other exhibitions

6th International Festival of Satire and Humor "The Golden Ostap"

Dates: April 11-13, 1998
Venue: Oktyabrsky Concert Hall and other locations

3rd International Festival "Jazz Spring in Saint-Petersburg"

Dates: April 12-20, 1998
Venue: JFC JAZZ CLUB
Performances of world famous jazz musicians

7th Easter Festival

Dates: April 19 - May 3, 1998
Venues: St. Petersburg Shostakovich Philharmonic, Hermitage Theater, St. Petersburg State Capella, Kazan Cathedral, St. Isaac's Cathedral, Vladimirskaya Church, gardens and parks of the city
Festival of Russian Folk Music, Festival of Bell Music, orthodox church singing, scientific conferences, charity concerts

Exhibition "Tolstoy, the Collector"

Dates: April 24, 1998 - January 17, 1999
Venue: The State Hermitage     See other exhibitions

15th International Festival-Competition "Baltica-Harmonica"

Dates: April 26 - May 3, 1998
Venue: Cultural Center "Mayak"
Laureates of the Festival are famous musicians from different countries all over the world, who will perform on accordion and concertina

International Competition of Fashion Theaters "Stars of Podium"

Dates: April 30 - May 3, 1998
Venue: St.Petersburg Music-Hall

4th European Union Film Festival

Beginning of April
Venues: cinemas throughout the city

British Art Old and New

When? April
Various locations
A series of lectures (to last until April) organized by the Hermitage

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MAY 1998

3rd Festival "Gulf of Finland" (Ballet and Drama Theaters)

Dates: May 3-8, 1998
Venue: Theater "Baltic House"
Featuring: "Q - Theater", "Kom - Theater", "Municipal Theater" (Helsinki, Finland), The Plastic Theater's "Sunny Ballet (Turku, Finland)

Reopening of the Alexander Suvorov Military-Historical Museum

Dates: May 8 - Grand Opening, May 14 open to individual visitors and groups
Address: Ulitsa Saltykova-Schedrina 43
Museum, devoted to life and achievements of Russia most celebrated general Alaxander Suvorov reopens this May after a long restoration.

2nd International Festival named after Evgeny Mravinsky

Dates: May 3-10, 1998
Venues: St. Petersburg Philhrmonic, Children's Art School
Music for winds instruments, master-classes, opening of the museum named after Evgeny Mravinsky

34th International Festival "Musical Spring in Saint-Petersburg"

Dates: May 15-26, 1998
Organizer: Composers Union of St.Petersburg
Venues: Shostakovich Large Hall and Glinka Small Hall of St.Petersburg Philharmonic, Municipal Cultural Centre (Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace), St.Petersburg House of Composers.
Festival dedicated to contemporary music of great composers of the 20th century

Photography and the Pre-Raphaelites

Dates: May 22 onwards
Venue: Russian Museum (exact venue TBA)
An exhibition of 76 photographs by 12 photographers from the second half of the 19th century.     See other exhibitions

5th International Book Fair "Saint-Petersburg Book Salon"

Dates: May 28-31, 1998
Venue: Manezh Exhibition Hall
The British Council's stand will this year highlight children's book. A children's Art competition "Design a Book Cover" will be a related event linking St.Petersburg and Manchester. A seminar and workshop on children's literature with British authors will be held at British Council on 25 - 26 of May

The exhibition of Netsuke

Dates: May 26 - June 28, 1998
Venue: The State Hermitage     See other exhibitions

Day of the city (St. Petersburg's Birthday)

Dates: May 27, 1998, main celebrations will take place over the weekend May 30-31
Venue: State Museum of St.Peterburg History (Peter and Paul Fortress)
Theater performances, open air concerts "music on water", fireworks

2nd International Festival of Military Brass Bands

Dates: May 29-31, 1998
Venues: Oktyabrsky Concert Hall, Ubileiny Arena
Members of various military bands from around the world assemble on Palace Square following a parade down Nevsky Prospect; Gala concerts on Palace Square

Launch of the ship Shtandart, replica of Peter the Great's original ship

Date: May 30
Currently under construction on the banks of the Neva River

3rd International Festival "Musical Olympus in St.Petersburg"

Dates: May 31 - June 7, 1998
Venue: Shostakovich Large Philharmonic Hall
Performances of young musicians - laureates of international competitions all over the world: pianists, violinists, vocalists, performers of winds instruments, organists

Musical Festival "Nevsky Choral Assemblies"

Dates: May 19-23
Organizers: St. Petersburg Capella, Culture Committee of St. Petersburg Local Administration (tel.: (812) 110-55-09)
Venues: St. Petersburg State Capella, Smolny Cathedral, St. Petersburg Shostakovich Philharmonic Hall , Kazan Cathedral, Peter & Paul Cathedral

6th International Chamber Music Festival "Palaces of St.Petersburg"

Dates: May 29 - June 14, 1998
Organizers: the festival's foundation (tel.: (812) 113-32-08), Committee for Culture of St.Petersburg Local Administration.
Venues: Hermitage Theater, Church of Savior on the Spilled Blood, Yelagin Palace, Gatchina Palace, Grand Palace in Peterhoff (Throne Hall), House of Architects, Tavrichesky Palace, etc. Chamber music played in some splendid palace interiors.

4th Festival of Fine Arts "Pushkin. Petersburg"

When? May
Venue: Children's Philharmonic Hall

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JUNE 1998

1st International Children's Festival of Jazz and Pop Music "Jazz - Parnas"

Dates: June 2-6, 1998
Venue TBA

5th International Jazz Festival "Swinging in the White Nights"

When? Beginning of June
Venue: Jazz Philharmonic Hall
Annual festival inviting the most popular jazz musicians from Russia, USA, Europe

The summer classical ballet season on the stage of the Alexandrinsky Drama Theater

Dates: June 11-30, 1998
Venue: Alexandrinsky Theater
Performances of the best ballet collectives: Boris Eifman's State Ballet Theater, Askold Makarov's St.Petersburg. State Academic Ballet Theater and others

Exhibition of Rubens' Heroic Apotheoses

Dates: June 12 - September, 1998
Venue: The State Hermitage     See other exhibitions

International Rock Music Festival "White Nights of St. Petersburg"

Dates: June 15-17, 1998
Gala concerts of world rock music stars at Oktyabrsky Concert Hall, Peter and Paul Fortress

35th International Festival of Classical Art "The Stars of White Nights"

Dates: June 19-30, 1998
Venue: Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theater
Concerts of symphonic and chamber music featuring world famous soloists

Exhibition "Schliemann. St. Petersburg. Troy. "

Dates: June 19-October 18, 1998
Venue: The State Hermitage     See other exhibitions

6th International Film Festival in St. Petersburg "Festival of Festivals - 98"

Dates: June 23-29, 1998
Venues: cinemas - "Aurora", "Barricade", "Parisiana", "Leningrad"
Non-competitive screening of the best works of Russian and world cinema featuring the following: Festival of Festivals Section or World Cinema Panorama, Section on The New Cinema of Russia Special Screenings, Retrospectives

2nd International Festival of Children's Choirs

When? June
Venue: Smolny Cathedral

8th International Flower Show Festival "Music of White Nights"

Dates: June 10-17, 1998
Venue: Glinka Small Hall of St.Petersburg Philharmonic and others halls of the city

St. Petersburg Rock Music Festival

When? End of June
Theater "DDT"

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JULY 1998

8th International non-fiction Film Festival "Message to Man"

Dates: July 1-8, 1998
Documentaries, short films, and animation films will be shown in various cinemas of the city

Funeral of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his family

Dates: July 17, 1998  In-depth story
Location: Peter and Paul Cathedral
Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, three of their five children and four servants will be buried in St. Catherine Chapel of Peter and Paul Cathedral. Peter and Paul Fortress will be close to the public throughout the ceremonies. Coffins with the royal remains will arrive from Yekaterinburg by plane on July 16. Funeral procession will go from the airport to the fortress. Romanovs will be buried shortly after noon (12 pm) on Friday July 17  In-depth story

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AUGUST 1998

Exhibition of Rene Magritte

Date: August 4 - October 18, 1998
Venue: The State Hermitage     See other exhibitions

Exhibition "Cezanne and the Russian Avant-Garde"

Dates: August 8 - September 24, 1998
Venue: The State Hermitage     See other exhibitions

The exhibition of Ex-libris/Book Plates

Dates: August 14 - September 27, 1998
Venue: The State Hermitage

International Ballet Competition "Maya'98" (World-famous ballerina Maya Plisetskaya will chair the panel of judges)

Dates: August 17-22, 1998
Venue: Alexandrinsky Theater

5th State Film Festival "Viva, Russian film!"

Dates: August 27 - September 1, 1998
Venues: cinemas throughout the city

International Festival of Fireworks "Falling Star in St. Petersburg"

Dates: August 28-31, 1998
Venue: Lenexpo Exhibition grounds

5th Festival of Street Musicians "Singing Nevsky"

When? August (date TBA)
Program: The opening of the festival on Dumskaya Street at 12 pm (noon) Street performances throughout the day at the following locations:
- the crossing of Malaya Konushennaya and Nevsky Prospect
- near Kazan Cathedral
- near St. Catherine Church
- at the corner of Sadovaya street and Nevsky Prospekt (at the Gostiny Dvor)
- at the corner of Malaya Sadovaya and Nevsky Prospekt
- in the Ostrovsky garden (Ostrovsky Square, near the monument to Catherine the Great) The closing the festival will take place near Rusca Portico (corner of Nevsky Prospekt and Dumskaya Ulitsa, opposite Grand Hotel Europe) from 9 pm to 10 pm

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SEPTEMBER 1998

Britain - Window for Business'98

Dates: September 8-11, 1998
Venue: Lenexpo Exhibition grounds in St. Petersburg Harbor
A prestigious, all-British fair and exhibition to be held at Lenexpo. It will be a showcase for the very best of British goods and services and will also feature a series of sector-specific seminars and workshops

57th Anniversary of the Beginning of the Siege of Leningrad

Date: September 8, 1998
On this day the people of St.Petersburg traditionally bring flowers to Piskariovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Monument to Heroic Defenders of Leningrad on Victory Square and other war memorials.
To learn more about the 900-day Siege of Leningrad click here (Then press BACK to return)

Annual Holiday "Day of Alexander Nevsky"

Date: September 12
Program TBA
Alexander Nevsky was a Russian ruler (prince) who won a battle on the banks of the Neva River in 1240. He was later declared a Saint of the Russian Orthodox church and from the early 18th century was (and still is) considered a Patron Saint of St.Petersburg

Opening of English Speaking Union branch office in St.Petersburg

When? September (Date and venue TBA)

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OCTOBER 1998
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SKIF-3, Third International Festival of New Music (In memory of Sergei Kuriokhin)

Dates: October 2-4, 1998
Organizer: Sozvezdie Plus (telephone: +7 (812) 273-89-95), Sergei Kuriokhin Foundation, Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg City Administration; Festival coordinator: Institute for Cultural Programs (telephone: +7 (812) 219-40-44)
Venue: LDM - House of Youth Complex (Address: Ulitsa Professora Popova 47)
Jazz, modern and extreme music performances in memory of one of Russia's most innovative musicians

8th International Theater Festival "Baltic House"

Dates: October 8-15, 1998
Venue: "Baltic House" Theater
Theaters from Byelorussia, Germany, Denmark, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, St. Petersburg and Moscow are guests of the festival. You can see the best theater premiers of Northern Europe.
Organizers: Baltic International Festival Center (telephone: +7 (812) 232-09-61), Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg City Administration (telephone: +7 (812) 311-21-48)

4th International Festival "Autumn in the Tsarskoye Selo"

Dates: October 7-19, 1998
Organizer: Tsarskoye Selo State Museum-Lyceum
Venue: Mueum-Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo/Pushkin

Exhibition of landscapes by Jacob Philip Hackert (Germany, second half of the 18th century)

Dates: October 28, 1998 - February 7, 1999
Venue: The State Hermitage

Festival of old music "From ARS-NOVA to Classics"

Dates: October 17-18
Organizer: St.Petersburg Capella (telephone: +7 (812) 314-10-63)
Concerts of chamber and classical music at the Capella

International Festival of Music for Concertina and Accordion

Dates: October 30 - November 1, 1998
Venue: Concert Hall "St. Petersburg" (Address: Arsenalnaya Embenkment 13/1, Metro: Ploschad Lenina)

International Festival of Organ Music

Dates: October 7-23, 1998
Organizer: St. Petersburg Philharmonic (telephone: +7 (812) 110-42-18)
Venue: St. Petersburg Philharmonic

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Exhibitions which continue from previous months:
Great Faberge at the Hermitage Museum
Acquisitions and gifts at the Russian Museum, 1988-98
Emperor Alexander II
See also exhibitions page

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