Celebrate the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg by experiencing a dramatic evening of music, poetry and film, traveling “from the bohemian cafes and salons of the early part of the twentieth century, through the revolutionary era, to war-torn Leningrad and into the 1970’s.” St. Petersburg Legacy traces the legacy of the great Russian poets of the twentieth century, from Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Mariana Tsvetayeva to Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Brodsky, with readings, song settings and chamber music by fellow St. Petersburg composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Since its Houston premiere, this acclaimed production has been presented at Lincoln Center, London’s Barbican Centre, and Amsterdam’s De Ijsbreker Festival.

The performance is co-sponsored by the Performing Arts Series and tickets are available at the Shriver Box Office, (513) 529-3200.

Read St. Petersburg Legacy by Sarah Rothenberg.