Published on: 2026-10-02
Source: Moscow Government – Правительства Москвы –
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This weekend, Muscovites and visitors to the capital are invited to performances, tours, and concerts. Audiences will hear the voice of artificial intelligence accompanied by an orchestra, go backstage of a popular musical, and also see how events of an ancient Greek tragedy are transferred to the year 2090. Tickets can be purchased through the service “Mosbilet”.
Mariam Merabova. “Jazz Masterpieces”
Date: October 3
Age restriction: 0+
A concert will be held in the theater hall of the Moscow International House of Music Mariam Merabova and the Miraif project. Young listeners will get acquainted with the main directions of jazz, as well as hear compositions in the styles of blues, swing, bebop, Latin, funk, and fusion.
Together with the artists, invited jazz musicians and young performers will take the stage.
Project “Verification”
Date: October 3
Age restriction: 12+
An audiovisual show will take place in the A. Schnittke Hall of the Moscow International House of Music “Verification”.
An original project combining a live string orchestra, electronic music, visual installations, and the voice of artificial intelligence explores the nature of personality in the era of technology. Each composition is part of a unified story where orchestral sounds merge with electronic music.
Viewers will experience an artistic exploration of memory, time, choice, love, and self-identity.
“The Wonderful World of Things and Words”
Date: October 3
Age restriction: 6+
A tour will be held at the V.L. Pushkin House-Museum “The Wonderful World of Things and Words”. Young visitors will learn how their ancestors lived in the 19th century, see household items, antique toys, alphabets, textbooks, and become acquainted with the history of these objects. Guests will see what fashion for neckties was like in the past, attend a children’s ball and a formal dinner, as well as visit the poet’s study and the dining room.
Backstage tour of the musical «Boston Waltz» with an artist
Dates: October 3 and 4
Age restriction: 16+
A backstage tour of the musical will take place at the Moscow Variety Theatre “Waltz-Boston”. In its first year of run, this production gathered over 200 thousand viewers and was shown more than 200 times.
One of the musical’s performers will show the props and sets, explain who controls the performance from behind the scenes, introduce the work of stagehands, property masters, costume designers, and makeup artists, and also lead a tour onto the stage. Guests will learn how theatrical marking is arranged, how the screens move, and how the musicians and conductor synchronize their actions with the performers. At the end of the tour, participants will have the opportunity to take photos in the musical’s sets.
“Introduction to the orchestra”
Dates: October 3 and 4
Age restriction: 6+
A concert-performance for the whole family will be held at the K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre “Getting to Know the Orchestra”. Children and their parents will hear the symphonic tale “Peter and the Wolf” by Sergei Prokofiev and the suite “Carnival of the Animals” by Camille Saint-Saëns. The narrator will introduce the audience to the layout of the orchestra and the sounds of the instruments.
A special backstage tour of the play “Talent and Admirers” at Pokrovka.Theater
Dates: 3rd and 4th October
Age: 12+
A special backstage tour and a meeting with the actors of the premiere play will take place at “Pokrovka.Theatre” “Talents and Fans”. Viewers will be invited to the rehearsal room to see the process of creating a production based on the play of the same name by Alexander Ostrovsky. This legendary theater production, for which its founder received a state prize more than 30 years ago, is being revived by young directors Stepan Danilov and Anna Topuridze — winners of the “Pokrovka.LAB” project — the theater’s first directing laboratory. Guests will take lessons from the leading actors of the troupe and will be able to become not only spectators but also participants in the creative process.
“Music of the Green Islands: Traditions of Ireland and Scotland”
Date: October 4
Age restriction: 6+
A concert will take place in the palace of N.A. Durasov at the Lyublino museum-estate “Music of the Green Islands”. It is dedicated to the musical culture of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and England.
Guests will hear works from different periods — from the Tudor era to the 20th century: Scottish drinking songs arranged by Ludwig van Beethoven, Dido’s aria from Henry Purcell’s opera “Dido and Aeneas,” the song “I Could Have Danced All Night” from the musical “My Fair Lady,” as well as the compositions The Skye Boat Song and “Greensleeves.”
“Cosmic Wind, or the Marble Girl”
Age restriction: 18+
Date: October 4
A performance will take place at the Theatre on Bronnaya “Space Wind, or the Marble Girl”. The action of the production, based on the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides “Iphigenia in Aulis,” unfolds in the year 2090. Audiences will see a large-scale picture of the future. A discussion of the performance with director Konstantin Bogomolov will follow the screening.
“Mosbilet” is the official service on the mos.ru portal that allows you to purchase tickets to theaters, museums, concert halls, and other institutions under the Moscow Department of Culture without commissions or markups. The service page features announcements of the most anticipated events, season premieres, city festival events, exhibitions, performances, and concerts scheduled for the upcoming weekend.
You can purchase a ticket directly through the service. For events requiring personal data to buy a ticket, there is no need to enter the visitor’s last name, first name, patronymic, and other details: if the user has a standard or full account, it is enough to leave the default document selection as Mos ID. Mandatory fields must be filled in manually if the account is simplified. When booking tickets for young guests via the service, all data should be entered only by the accompanying adult. For children under 14, only the last name, first name, patronymic, and date of birth can be provided; a child’s identity document does not need to be shown when attending cultural events.
In addition, authorized users will be able to open QR codes in the mobile applications “My Moscow,” “My ID,” and “Moscow State Services.”
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