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M.Savitsky art gallery hosting expo dedicated to Year of Small Motherland Michael Savitsky art gallery is hosting an exposition of a Belarusian artist Konstantin Kachan. His works are kept at National Arts museum of Belarus, the Moscow Tretyakov gallery, private ...

On Minsk stage, La Bohème is performed in Italian Today the Bolshoi Theatre in Minsk is premiering Puccini’s world-famous La Bohème. It was staged there twice, in 1968 and 2002. Now the opera is directed by the People's Artist of Russia and four-time winner of the Golden Mask theatre prize Alexander Titel. The artistic concept of the new staging lies in early modernism. The events of the opera have been moved to the beginning of the 20th century. Poor talented artists ...

Patrons of culture support large-scale festivals and major international exhibitions Belarus’ patrons of culture have been awarded in Minsk. The list includes companies, businessmen, and ordinary people who contribute to culture development in the country, support the organization of events, finance the preservation of monuments and historical sites. Thanks to their donations and sponsorship hundreds of cultural monuments have been returned to their historical homeland. The list of prize winners...

Exposition timed to 85-th anniversary of Bolshoi academic opera and ballet theater of Belarus opened at National library An exposition timed to the 85-th anniversary of the Bolshoi theater of Belarus opened at the National library. 70 showbills tell about the most significant periods of its history. The 25-th of May, 1933 is regarded as the date of birth of the Bolshoi theater of Belarus. Yet, the library's gallery also features several showbills of the 19-th century, which are also connected with...

Largest state collection of Isachov's paintings located in Rechitsa An exhibition of paintings by Alexander Isachev «At the Forgotten Altars» has opened in Minsk. The Belarusian artist did not have a professional education, but he was able to make a breakthrough in Belarusian art in the Soviet times. His works are in private collections of Jacques Chirac and Ronald Reagan. The artist passed away more than 30 years ago, but over ...

Arabic poems sound in Belarusian for first time Belarus and Palestine continue to develop cultural ties. Classics of Arabic poetry in Belarusian were presented in Minsk. The collection of poems «The Sorrows and Joys of Native Land» includes the works of the founder of the Palestinian literature Mahmud Darwish and the Belarusian poet and playwright Yanka Kupala. Arabic poems for the first time sounded in Belarusian thanks to the writer and translator Nikolai Metlitsky.

Minsk Region Drama Theater repertoire includes over 50 performances Minsk Region Drama Theater turns 25. It was created on the basis of the Molodechno People’s Theater by the Honored Worker of Culture of Belarus Nikolai Matskevich. By the way, he led the team until 2002. During this time, 14 performances were staged in the theater, various in genre and content. Today the theater employs 24 actors. They not only please their audience, but also play on tour successfully. There are more than 50 performances...

Master celebrates birthday with personal exposition at National Arts museum National artist of Belarus Leonid Schemelev is 95 today! His creativity is regarded to as the chronicle of the epoch. The artists glorifies Belarus, creates sublime poetic images of his native land and its citizens. The main topics of his ...

The art project «Stol» («The Table») has been updated This year the art project «Stol» («The Table») by Roman Zaslonov represented Belarus at the 57th Venice Biennale. It attracted a great deal of interest. The film was on display in Paris for a ...

Belarusian ballet «Vitovt» captivates Lithuanian audience The choreographic poem «The Legend of Vitovt» captivated the Lithuanian audience. The performance, based on common historical events of the two countries of the era of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, was presented in Vilnius by the Bolshoi Theater of Belarus. The ballet troupe was received with a storm of applause. The largest venue in Lithuania, «Siemens-arena», gathered more than one and a half thousand spectators. The next tour of the Bolshoi...