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Concert “No More Searching”. Toronto 23.07.2024
Pavel Fakhrtdinov is a well-known singer-songwriter. His music is known from Vladivostok to San-Francisco. A true musical globetrotter, his songs and poems are both philosophical and ironic, nostalgic and current. His music represents a unique blend of poetry, high intensity guitar, and powerful delivery. With 10 solo albums and a cadre of collaborations with well-known artists from various genres – Pavel Fakhrtdinov represents the new wave of bard-rock renaissance.
Pavel is a kind of a person and a bridge at the same time. Between bards and rock’n’roll, between yesterday and tomorrow, between trendy and eternal, between alive and forever alive.
And most importantly, he himself is still very much alive. Who knows how to feel and most importantly – admit that he still can. There is already a lot nowadays.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBBDUj
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April 28-29, 2024 (John Basset Theatre, Toronto)
A play about great love and the atomic bomb
Starring Ksenia Rappoport and Alexei Serebryakov.
Written by Alexander Gelman; Directed by Alexander Marin; Set design: Alexey Serebryakov; Costumes: Svetlana Tegin; Choreography: Maria Serebryakova.
In 1935, Princeton University commissioned a sculpture of Albert Einstein. The sculptor, Russian emigré Sergey Konenkov, arrived to Princeton with his wife Margarita, who began a wild affair with the world-famous physicist, lasting until August 1945. After the U.S. has just dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Einstein blames himself for his part in the creation of nuclear weapons, when Margarita informs him that in a week, after many years in America, she and her husband are returning to the Soviet Union for good.
Based on the recently discovered letters written by Albert Einstein to Margarita Konenkova, this play details the last days of the secret lovers’ time together. The audience is invited into Einstein’s Princeton’s residence, an intimate setting where terrible words will be spoken and a terrible secret will be revealed.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBrEsZ
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William Shakespeare – The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark.
(Toronto’s Elgin Theatre April 3-7, 2024. World Premiere)
Designed and directed by Robert Lepage.
Co-designed and choreographed by Guillaume Côté.
Composer: John Gzowski.
Dancers
Hamlet: Guillaume Côté; Gertrude: Greta Hodgkinson; Claudius: Robert Glumbek; Ophelia: Carleen Zouboules; Laertes: Lukas Malkowski; Polonius: Bernard Meney; Horario: Natasha Poon Woo; Rosencrantz: Connor Mitton; Guildenstern: Willem Sadler.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBo9p5
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Flato Markham Theatre, Toronto, Ontario. April 2, 2024.
Canadian premiere.
Starring: Masha Mashkova; Voice of Nadezhdin: Anatoly Beliy; Director: Egor Baranov; Playwright: Arseny Faryatiev; Music: Anna Drubich; Artist/Graphic Design: Lisa Irshai; Choreographer: Melpomene; Costumes: Katerina Kravtsova; Producer: Sasha Seberg.
Original size versions: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBkxPX
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Phoenix Concert Theater, Toronto (03.02.2024).
“Neschastny Sluchai” (literally “Unfortunate Event”) is a Russian rock band that was formed by Valdis Pelsh and Alexey Kortnev in 1983, while both men were students at Moscow State University.
Despite being popular in Russia, the band is virtually unknown outside. The band’s lyrics are at the same time grotesque and sentimental while their music features complicated structures and melodic turns rooted in the prog rock of the ’70s. Alexey Kortnev is a Russian musician and actor known for his work in theater and movies in collaboration with the Kvartet E. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the band has been banned from performing in Russia as a result of Kortnev’s anti-war stand.
Band:
Alexey Kortnev — vocals, guitar, songwriting
Sergey Chekryzhov — keyboards, accordion, vocals
Dmitry Chuvelyov — bass, guitar, vocals
Pavel Timofeev — drums, percussion
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBdtJY
YouTube: https://youtu.be/pzGZ2hUhARs
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The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre, Toronto (December 22-31, 2023)
Slava’s Snowshow has been going strong since its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival in 1996. The entertainment by master clown Slava Polunin is undoubtedly the most popular full-length clown show ever created.
Robert Saralp is one of the main performers in the show. He plays the role of the yellow clown and the main green clown. Robert has been working with Slava Polunin since 1996. He is also a director, actor, and teacher of clowning and physical theatre.
Day 1
Yellow clown: Robert Salarp.
Main green clown: Dmytro Merashchi.
Green clowns: Georgiy Deliyev, Chris Lynam, Oleg Lugovskoy, Bradford West, Jaime Rebollo.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjB9RF1
Day 2
Yellow clown: Oleg Lugovskoy.
Main green clown: Dmytro Merashchi.
Green clowns: Robert Saralp, Georgiy Deliyev, Chris Lynam, Bradford West, Jaime Rebollo.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBbi4B
Day 3
Yellow clown: Dmytro Merashchi.
Main green clown: Georgiy Deliyev.
Green clowns: Robert Saralp, Oleg Lugovskoy, Chris Lynam, Bradford West, Jaime Rebollo.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBbD4w
Day 4
Yellow clown: Dmytro Merashchi.
Main green clown: Oleg Lugovskoy.
Green clowns: Robert Saralp, Georgiy Deliyev, Chris Lynam, Bradford West, Jaime Rebollo.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBbT2t
Day 5
Yellow clown: Robert Salarp.
Main green clown: Oleg Lugovskoy.
Green clowns: Georgiy Deliyev, Chris Lynam, Dmytro Merashchi, Bradford West, Jaime Rebollo.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBckR9
Day 6
Yellow clown: Robert Salarp.
Main green clown: Georgiy Deliyev.
Green clowns: Dmytro Merashchi, Chris Lynam, Oleg Lugovskoy, Bradford West, Jaime Rebollo.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBckRQ
Vanya Yaropolskiy – Technical director
Alistair Kerslake – Sound
Alexander Pecherskiy, Rebecca Lore – Lights
Eerika Yaropolskiy – Company manager
Gwenael Allan – Ambassador
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Phoenix Concert Theater, Toronto (26.11.2023).
First Time in Toronto! A legendary Russian rock band “Splean” made a long-anticipated Canadian debut with the program “The Best”, as part of their big North American tour! The band performed their biggest hits including songs from recent albums. The band’s name is derived from “spleen”, and the “ea” spelling in English is a pun on the spelling of the Beatles. It was borrowed from a short poem by Sasha Cherny, which the band transformed into music.
Band: Alexander Vasilyev – lead vocals, guitar; Vadim Sergeyev – guitar; Dmitriy Kunin – bass-guitar; Nikolay Rostovsky – keyboards; Alexey Mesherekov – drums.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjB5obA
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Phoenix Concert Theater, Toronto (03.11.2023).
Miron Fyodorov, known by the stage name Oxxxymiron, is a Russian-born British hip-hop artist. In June 2008 he graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in Middle English literature. After university, Fyodorov moved to the East End where he restarted his musical career under the name Oxxxymiron. The name is derived from his first name Miron, rhetorical device oxymoron and triple X, representing the large amount of profanity in his lyrics.
Today he is one of the most influential and prominent hip-hop performers in Russia, and his albums are considered by the community as the most important releases of Russian rap.
On February 24, 2022, he opposed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He held a number of charity concerts, and used the proceeds from them to help Ukrainian refugees. At concerts, during breaks between songs, he often spoke out against the war.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjB2Wua
