The National Academic Orchestra under conductor Mikhail Finberg will perform the first concert of the anniversary program Hits for All Seasons.
Culture
Maria Magilnaya from Mogilev will represent Belarus at the children's contest of the Slavic Bazaar Festival in Vitebsk
Belarus’ representatives at the Slavic Bazaar in Vitebsk will be announced today as qualifying round finals have launched at Minsk’s Variety Theatre.
Brest is hosting an international young pianists forum in memory of Sviatoslav Richter. More than 20 contestants from the musical educational institutions of Belarus, Poland, Russia, Lithuania and China will perform five classical music pieces, both world masterpieces and works by Belarusian composers.
The National Library has hosted a presentation of the book Vladimir Mulyavin and Lidia Karmalskaya: The Unsaid. Coauthored by the musician’s daughter and a Belarusian musicologist, the book presents unknown facts from Mulyavin’s biography.
Tickets are now available for all Slavic Bazaar Festival programmes to be held in Vitebsk’s Summer Amphitheatre. The third stage of ticket sales will launch on 21 April.
About 30 artists from all over Europe have taken part in the unusual art project From Lisbon to Vladivostok Through Minsk.
An exhibition of Belarusian icons in Spain’s Toledo has attracted 40,000 visitors in 2.5 months. For that reason, it has been extended until the end of March.
Belarusfilm is shooting an action film based on Nikolai Cherginets’ novel Black Dog (Cherny Pes). The original script is a kind of collage of the author's prose adapted for the screen.
A presentation of Belarus’ tourism opportunities in Moscow focused on the country’s regions. Thus, the Brest region offered an unforgettable holiday in the Bialowieza Forest, the Grodno region — a historical tour of the Radziwill family’s residence in the Mir Castle and the Gomel region — a tour of the Golden Ring with sites dating back to the 17-19th centuries.
By Elena Bormotova: The National History Museum’s collection is the largest in the country, the number of exhibits approaching half a million.
Open European Championships in modern battle with swords was held in the Palace of Children and Youth. The tournament brought together sportsmen from 14 countries.
By Olga Medved: The Road to Shambala exhibition has opened in Minsk’s Dom Kartin Gallery. It features Buddhism-related relics that have never been presented to the general public before.
Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute will be staged at Belarus’ Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre by experts from Austria, Germany and Russia.
By Nina Mozheiko: A facsimile version of the Epistle of Apostle Peter, one of the oldest books of the New Testament dating back to the 3rd century AD, has been presented to Minsk’s general public for the fist time.
The two-storey summer residence of the princes was located in the village Ruchitsa Vileika area. On the walls of the palace of baroque and rococo there were tapestries and portraits of princes, mahogany furniture.
By Nina Mozheiko: Mural artist Vladimir Kondrusevich has presented the exhibition Recycling at Minsk’s DK Gallery. The artist combines tradition and modernity, using rusty metals instead of canvases.
On the International Women's Day the soloists of Chisty Golos performed their new songs for the beautiful half of humanity.
People's Artist of Belarus Alexander Tikhanovich passed away on 28 January following a long-term illness. The singer became famous in the USSR as part of the vocal and instrumental ensemble Verasy, where he met his future wife Yadviga Poplavskaya.
The logo of Belarus’ Eurovision delegation combines NAVIBAND’s signature style and the national ornaments standing for the earth and sun.
By Olga Medved: To mark the135th birth anniversary of People's Poet of Belarus Yakub Kolas, an underground cellar has been added to the Yakub Kolas Museum located in the poet’s house.
NAVIBAND will unveil the final version of its Eurovision song today. The track features a bridge as well as new musical instruments - the violin and duda -recorded live.
The song for Eurovision is ready today, as NAVIBAND presented the final arrangement of the Stories of My Life. For this folk sound the musicians used live instruments.
By Inna Pilevich: The Museum of Theatre and Musical Culture has hosted a presentation of guitars belonging to a bygone era.












