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Christie’s picks Kumu exhibition as one of the European art shows to seek out

Christie’s, a British auction house, has picked “Through the Black Gorge of Your Eyes”, an exhibition at Tallinn’s Kumu art museum that highlights the pioneering work of a small group of women who made significant contributions to Estonia’s printmaking scene during the country’s late-Soviet period, as one of the twelve art shows in Europe to […]

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Estonia’s Youth Song and Dance Festival celebrates humanity

Over 33,000 young singers and dancers gather to the Estonian capital, Tallinn, to take part in the Youth Song and Dance Celebration this weekend, lauding the connection between the younger generation, their homeland, their culture and the older generation – their roots. The 13th Youth Song and Dance Celebration will bring together nearly 34,000 performers,

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Sir Simon Rattle to conduct the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir was once again invited to perform at the renowned Aix-en-Provence opera festival in France, this time for Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, one of the world’s foremost conductors. Alban Berg (1885–1935) completed Wozzeck, his opera in three acts in 1925. Festival d’Aix will stage five performances at the Grand

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Video: Alika Milova represents Estonia at Eurovision 2023

Alika Milova represented Estonia with the song “Bridges”, written by her and Dutch songwriter Wouter Hardy, at the 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, hosted in Liverpool, the UK, from 9-13 May; she won eighth place in the contest’s final. Milova (20), born into a Russian-speaking family in the Estonian border town Narva, won the

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Arvo Pärt. Photo by Kaupo Kikkas.

Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel among the Times critics’ best pieces of classical music

The Times’ panel of music critics chose 100 best pieces of classical music from the repertoire of the past 1,000 years and included is Spiegel im Spiegel, an instrumental piece written by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt in 1978. The Times suggests 100 recordings, arranged in ten categories the paper said it hopes “will convey the

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