9th International Chekhov Theater Festival
25 May-30 July, Moscow
This year’s festival will include performances (dramatic, musical, theater-circus acts by Chekhov and about him) staged by the Chekhov Festival in cooperation with theaters in Russia and abroad (France, Spain, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Belarus, Armenia, Japan and Taiwan). Argentina will present a performance based on Uncle Vanya, staged by D. Veronese: it was a great success in Paris this past season. Chili will present “Neva”, staged by G. Calderon. The program will wind up with a performance by Nacho Duato to the music of Bach; critics have called Duato one of the world’s leading choreographers. His performance will become a distinctive prologue to the “world series” program of next year’s Chekhov Festival. New productions of Chekhov’s plays at Moscow theaters will also be part of the festival program.
As well, the festival will host a Lab for young directors in Moscow, and a Summer School for young actors and directors from different countries in Yalta in July.
Throughout 2010 productions of Chekhov’s plays will be shown in cities in Russia and abroad: in St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Yalta, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Stockholm, Vienna, Chicago, Montreal, San Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minsk, Baku, Erevan, etc.

The Bolshoi Theater in London
19 July-14 August 2010 Covent Garden
The program includes performances of the opera Evgeny Onegin (11-14 August) and of the ballets Spartak (19-21, 31 July), Coppelia (22-24 July), Serenade and Giselle (staged by Y. Grigorovich) (25-27 July), Petrushka, Russian Seasons and the Great Classical (28-30 July), Le Corsaire (2-5 August), Don Quixote (6-8 August).