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Printed from: http://petersburgcity.com/news/culture/2002/05/31/news2837/ Culture news, 31.05.2002 18:24 Stars of White Nights Music Festival Opens in St. Petersburg![]() The first such festival took place in 1993 when during one week The Mariinsky tried to stage the best of the plays ever staged at the theatre. This year's festival will last for one month. Yet the ideology of the Stars of White Nights will stay unchanged. The theatre, just like ten years ago, will present to the audience all the variety and richness of the Russian music. Most of the spectators are foreigners who, in Mariinsky's Director's opinion, 'are not at all that well aware of what Russian culture is.' 'They know little about Prokofiev, Shostakovich or Rimsky-Korsakov, and even Tchaikovsky's works might be news to them,' he added. Photo: Interpress
News source: Rosbalt
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