After eight weeks of some of the loudest Proms in the business, this festival of no fewer than 90 concerts ended with one of the quietest Last Nights in the business.
As good as Emile Hirsch is in portraying doomed Alaskan adventurer Chris McCandless in Into the Wild , the question remains as to what kind of man McCandless really was.
The celebrated opera diva Anna Netrebko, of St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theater, received Russia’s highest state cultural honor in St. Petersburg on Wednesday.
Four days before an election that will end eight years in the Kremlin, President Vladimir Putin paid a nostalgic visit to St Petersburg, his home town he has revived as Russia's second capital.
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits gala night dedicated to 225th anniversary of Mariinsky Theatre. Аrtistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev.
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