From Los Angeles, Vickie Mendoza and her Vicdog3d company present comic multimedia fantasy in "Three Worse Flowers," tomorrow at 5 15 p.m. From Brooklyn, Caroline Jauch & Company presents a European folk tale about a bloody journey in "The Handless Maiden," Sunday at noon.
Finishing its series of concerts at Carnegie Hall, the KIROV ORCHESTRA and Valery Gergiev offer two other less familiar operas: Rimsky-Korsakov's "Snow Maiden," Sunday at 2 p.m., and an excerpt from Borodin's "Prince Igor," Tuesday at 8 p.m. (212) 247-7800, carnegiehall.org; $42 to $142.
Their music influences are Iron Maiden, Thursday, and AC/DC - just to name a few.
Mr. Polanski, alas, will not be present to introduce these films, including "Cul-de-Sac," "The Fearless Vampire Killers, or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth Are in My Neck" and "Rosemary's Baby" on Friday; "Macbeth" and "Che?" on Saturday; "Chinatown" and "The Tenant" on Sunday; "Pirates" and "Frantic" on Monday; "Bitter Moon" and "Death and the Maiden" on Wednesday; and "The Ninth Gate" on Thursday.
In an effort to guide the team's storytelling path and technique, Mr. Lindelof tosses out references to movies as varied as "Pulp Fiction," "Death and the Maiden," "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Red October".
For now, it is reassuring to see the growing maturity in the manner in which he constructed his maiden one-day international century on Sunday.
Russia came late to the European musical tradition, and Glinka's "Ruslan and Ludmila," on Saturday evening, and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Snow Maiden," on Sunday afternoon, represent both an accommodation with and a suspicion of European ideas of formalism and elegance.
Mr. Gergiev, a man of infinite energy, conducted Act I of Glinka's "Ruslan" on Saturday and the three and a half hours of "The Snow Maiden" on Sunday.
He reached his maiden one-day half-century with a boundary, his eighth of his innings.
On the maiden flight Wednesday, most seats were taken, albeit with Eos executives and board members.
