Cultural Picks, Tuesday: The Rite of Spring, Swan Lake and Patagonia

By The Moscow Times

March 2, 2015

Les Noces. The Wedding (Svadebka) and The Rite of Spring (Vesna Svyashchennaya): Stravinsky's one-act ballets as staged by French choreographer Regis Obadia. Theatre Ballet Moscow production. Pushkin Theater. 23 Tverskoi Bulvar. Metro Pushkinskaya. 495-694-1289. At 7 p.m.

Swan Lake (Lebedinoye Ozero): Tchaikovsky's ballet about a princess who is turned into a swan but regains her human form every night for a few hours. Features a collation of all the classic choreographical versions. Grand Moscow Classical Ballet production. Novaya Opera. 23 Tverskoi Bulvar. Metro Pushkinskaya. 495-694-1289. At 7 p.m.

In Bocca al Lupo: Yevgeny Shrednik (oboe), Alexander Parsadanov (double bass), Anastasia Batrakova (bassoon), Natalya Petrozhitskaya (soprano) and Vera Chasovennaya (piano) perform Poulenc, Schubert, Kechakmadze, Bozza, Dorati and others. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater. 17 Bolshaya Dmitrovka. Metro Tverskaya, Chekhovskaya. 495-723-7325. At 7 p.m.

Heartbreak House (Dom, Gde Razbivayutsya Serdtsa): Yevgeny Kamenkovich's staging of George Bernard Shaw's "fantasy in the Russian manner." English and French subtitles available. Fomenko Studio New Stage. 29 Naberezhnaya Tarasa Shevchenko. Metro Kutuzovskaya. 499-249-1921. At 7 p.m. ?

Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego: Photographs by Ivan Fomichyov and Anna Mstislavskaya. To March 29. Cervantes Institute. 20A Novinsky Bulvar, Bldg. 1-2. Metro Krasnopresnenskaya.? 495-609-9022.? www.moscu.cervantes.es/ru.? From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Foreign-Language Films

The Humbling (Unizheniye, 2014): Barry Levinson's adaptation of the Philip Roth novel about an ageing, suicidal stage actor Simon Axler (Al Pacino) and his struggles to find passion for life again.

Pioner. 21 Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Metro Kutuzovskaya. 499-240-5240. Tues. at 5:10 p.m.? In English; Russian subtitles.

The Tribe (Plemya, 2014): A deaf teenager struggles to fit into the boarding school system. A crime drama written and directed by Miroslav Slaboshpitsky.

Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya. In the Arkadia mall, 8 Sredny Ovchinnikovsky Pereulok. Metro Novokuznetskaya. 495-916-9169.? At 9:35 p.m. No spoken dialogue, sign language.

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