Saint-Petersburg June 2017 1 Contents Dear Friends, Sun, bright colors and smiles on the street – those are the main features of June in Saint-Petersburg. Well, at least it should be like that in this time of the year. Anyways, let’s hope for weather to get better and let’s take a look at the best events that will make your month! The fans of the LP (Laura Pergolizzi) should be happy – finally she’s coming in town to perform her world acclaimed “Lost on You” as well as the other songs. For the ones who liked this year’s Oscar “La La Land” and especially for those who haven’t seen the movie yet there’s a great chance to see it accompanied by symphony orchestra. Theatregoers are definitely should see the new Ilia Averbukh’s musical-on-ice “Carmen” as well as Nacho Duato version of the famous “Romeo and Juliet” ballet. The ones who like to learn and discover, should attend the biggest ever in Saint-Petersburg Salvador Dali exhibition. Also, don’t miss Manolo Blahnik “The Art of Shoes” exhibition, where you will be able to see both the sketches and the marvellous shoes. The cinema lovers will be happy of the long-awaited new episodes of “The Pirates of the Caribbean”. And your little ones will definitely like the new French cartoon “Ma vie de courgette” (“My Life as a Zucchini”). Also they might like to be a part of the annual Kaspersky Geek Picniсб where they will be able to literally touch the new technol- ogies. Or, you can just take them to The Summer Garden to spend a day full of fun and excitement! More information about that park you may find in “Cover Story” chapter. We already made Saint-Petersburg easy for you. Now it’s time to go out and have fun! Your Intermark Relocation Team Click the icon below to go to the required section Concerts Theater Exhibitions page 3 and Ballet page 10 page 6 Cinema For Children Cover story page 13 page 16 page 19 t t Ticket Instructions kek ke ic page 20 c t i t 2 Concerts LP Rock, Indie Laura Pergolizzi, known by her stage name as LP, is an American pop/rock singer and songwriter, originally from Long Island, New York, who performs under the stage name LP. She moved to Los Angeles in 2010. She has released three albums and one EP. As a songwriter, she has written for Cher, Rihanna and Christina Aguilera, among others. Pergolizzi herself is a powerful rock singer, and she stays true to that on her new release “Lost on You,” following in the tradition of the likes of Chrissie Hynde, Chrissy Amphlett, Johnette Napolitano and Linda Perry. Like many earnest songwriters hellbent on love, Pergolizzi jams her fist in her chest and yanks out her heart on almost every song, making “Lost on You” intermittently overwhelming. But her raspy voice, intensely belt- ed, maintains attention, and her signature whistling, ukulele and wails add a full-bodied distinction to her performances. Date: June 21 Time: 7:00 pm Venue: Ice Palace Location: prospekt Pyatiletok 1, m. Prospekt Bolshevikov Price: 2500 - 4500 RUB Tickets: afisha.yandex.ru, at the box offices or at the venue Phone: +7 (812) 718-66-20 Link: www.iamlp.com The Legend of Farinelli Classical In the Throne Hall of the Catherine Palace there will be a Country opening of the XXV jubilee in- ternational music festival “Palaces of St. Petersburg”. Among the participants is David Daniels, a countertenor from USA. David is known for his superlative artistry, magnetic stage presence and a voice of singular warmth and surpassing beauty, which have helped him redefine his voice cat- egory for the modern public. He has appeared with the world’s major opera companies and on its main concert and recital stages. He made history as the first counter-tenor to give a solo recital in the main auditorium of Carnegie Hall. Honored by the music world for his unique achievements, David Daniels has been the recipient of two of classical music’s most significant awards: Musical America’s Vocalist of the Year for 1999 and the 1997 Richard Tucker Award. Date: June 3 Time: 8:00 pm Venue: Catherine Palace Location: ulitsa Sadovaya 7, Pushkin Price: 2500 - 5000 RUB Tickets: afisha.yandex.ru, at the box offices or at the venue Phone: +7 (812) 570-05-15 Link: www.palacefest.ru “La La Land” with symphony orchestra Pop, Jazz, Blues It is being described as the film of its generation, capturing the hearts of everyone whilst breaking records around the world. Now “La La Land” will be brought to audiences like never before via a huge screen accompanied by a symphony orchestra. The score for “La La Land”, composed by Justin Hurwitz who also scored director Damien Chazelle’s previous feature films “Guy and Madeleine on a Park Bench”, and “Whiplash”. “For me, one of the most thrilling and fulfilling parts of making La La Land was scoring the film to a live orchestra: a hundred musicians playing in real-time to the Technicolor images, bringing Justin’s compositions to vivid life. I couldn’t be more excited to share that experience with audiences this summer,” said the film’s Oscar-winning direc- tor Damien Chazelle in a statement. Date: June 21 Time: 7:00 pm Venue: BKZ Oktyabrskiy Location: Ligovskiy prospekt 6, m. Ploschad Vosstaniya Price: 1000 - 5000 RUB Tickets: at the box offices or at the venue Phone: +7 (812) 275-13-00 Link: www.bkz.ru 3 Concerts Paris Mysteries Classical The St. Petersburg Chamber Opera presents a new concert programme featuring masterpieces of French classical music. Different European musical cultures, traditions of different countries and folklore - all that influenced French classical music. The concert features bright examples of French classical music from romantic pieces by Hec- tor Berlioz to Charles Gounod, founder of the lyric opera by, from the passionate “Carmen” by Georges Bizet to the Impressionists Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Date: June 4 Time: 7:00 pm Venue: Saint-Petersburg Opera Location: ulitsa Galernaya 33, m. Admiralteyskaya Price: 1000 RUB Tickets: afisha.yandex.ru, at the box offices or at the venue Phone: +7 (812) 312-39-82 Link: www.spbopera.ru Latin American Jazz Night Jazz There are old friends hiding under the new name of the Caribbean Jazz Report - the Alexander Latin Band, which for several years has been arranging Caribbean parties in the Philharmonic of jazz music. The orchestra conducted by bass player Alexander Vasilevsky will again offer the pub- lic the best musical performances in the style of Afro-Cuban and Latin American jazz in all their vivid forms. Date: June 4 Time: 7:00 pm Venue: Jazz Philarmonic Hall Location: Zagorodny prospekt 27, m. Zvenigorodskaya Price: 1200 - 1400 RUB Tickets: afisha.yandex.ru, at the box offices or at the venue Phone: +7 (812) 764-85-65 Link: www.jazz-hall.ru Vapors Of Morphine Rock, Blues, Jazz Vapors of Morphine is an American rock band founded in 2009 by the surviving members of the alternative rock band Morphine Dana Colley and Jerome Deupree and blues guitarist Jeremy Ly- ons. The band is continuing experiments with mixing rock, blues and jazz, developing a style they call “low-rock”. On their first concert in Moscow audience will have an opportunity to appreciate the unique sound of the band, which includes a baritone saxophone, a two-stringed slide-bass, drums, and no guitars. Date: June 15 Time: 8:00 pm Venue: Hi-Hat Location: Aptekarskiy prospekt 4, m. Petrogradskaya Price: 1200 RUB Tickets: afisha.yandex.ru, at the box offices or at the venue Phone: +7 (921) 441-20-30 Link: www.vaporsofmorphine.com The Piano Guys Classical, Pop, Jazz The Piano Guys are an American musical group consisting of pianist Jon Schmidt, cellist Steven Sharp Nelson, videographer Paul Anderson, and music producer Al van der Beek. The Piano Guys draw on classical, contemporary, and rock and roll in their compositions for piano and cello. Much of their popularity among younger fans is based on their “mashups” of classical and contemporary songs, such as blending Bach and Bruno Mars, or Vivaldi’s “Winter” and Disney’s “Let It Go”. Date: June 15 Time: 7:00 pm Venue: BKZ Oktyabrskiy Location: Ligovskiy prospekt 6, m. Ploschad Vosstaniya Price: 2000 - 5000 RUB Tickets: at the box offices or at the venue 4 Phone: +7 (812) 275-13-00 Link: www.thepianoguys.com Concerts Guru Groove Foundation Jazz, Pop Guru Groove Foundation is a music band, formed in 2009 by three its members: Tatiana Shamani- na, frontwoman, international vocal contests winner, great saxophonist Egor Shamanin and sound producer Gennady Lagutin. Winners of Golden Gargoyle award as the best dance band of 2011. Their debut album Call Me Up was massively supported by fans and media. Their unique stop motion video for a song “Moscow” has reached close to 1 million views all over the world. Time: 8:00 pm Venue: Aurora Concert Hall Location: Pirogovskaya naberezhnaya 5/2, m. Ploshad Lenina Price: 600 - 1000 RUB Tickets: afisha.yandex.ru, at the box offices or at the venue Phone: +7 (812) 907-19-17 Link: www.gurugroove.foundation Michael Angelo Batio Rock Michael Angelo Batio is an American heavy metal guitarist and columnist from Chicago, Illinois. He was the lead guitarist for the Los Angeles-based glam metal band Nitro in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Batio’s work has encompassed many genres, but he is best known for playing heavy metal and its subgenres such as neoclassical metal, and speed metal.