Culture

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 […]

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,

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

A street art festival is to take place in Viljandi, a small southern Estonian town, from 12-17 June. The festival is called RUA – Rural Urban Art – opposite words which, according to the organisers, mark the possibility of an urbanistic form of art finding its place in a rural area or small town. “RUA

The Tallinn Music Week, the international new music and city festival held annually since 2009, will fill the Estonian capital’s venues from 10 to 14 May. The music line-up of the festival’s 15th edition features 176 artists from Europe, North and South America, Africa and the Middle East. The greatest share – 84 acts –

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