St. Petersburg as a Cultural capital will present an action plan for 2023
The Russian city of St. Petersburg receives a new status of the Cultural Capital of the Commonwealth this year. The city authorities have compiled a list of upcoming events and sent it to the St. Petersburg Committee for Culture and the MFGS, the CIS Executive Committee website says.
The essence of these proposals is to establish the continuity of the relay of Cultural capitals of different years. The program includes both traditional events and other creative and cultural events that will take place in St. Petersburg throughout 2023, which celebrates its 320th anniversary of its foundation this year.
The Northern capital will celebrate a number of anniversaries - the 110th anniversary of the Aurora cinema and the 90th anniversary of the St. Petersburg Academic Theater named after Lensovet. The city will also host the XXV theater Festival of the CIS countries "Meetings in Russia", the Fyodor Chaliapin International Competition of Young Opera Performers, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the great singer, the festival "Sergei Rachmaninoff. The Last Romantic", dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the composer, as well as premiere performances dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Ostrovsky.
Another tradition of Cultural capitals is the tour of the CIS Youth Symphony Orchestra. This time, the orchestra will be performed by participants of the “Bolshoi Theater's” Youth Opera Program.
International library conferences are held annually within the framework of the Interstate Program Cultural Capital of the Commonwealth. The next forum will be held in St. Petersburg at the site of the Presidential Library named after B.N. Yeltsin. Organizational support for the formation of the business part of the event will traditionally be provided by the permanent partner of the MFGS - the Library Assembly of Eurasia.
The general action plan of the Program "Cultural Capital of the CIS" will be approved in the near future at a meeting of the city organizing committee, and the opening ceremony of the program will take place this spring.
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