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Due to popular demand and after already granting two extension, the Christmas Theater program of holiday events is re-streaming Tchaikovsky's family favorite "Sleeping Beauty" from Milan's La Scala on January 30 and 31.

Due to popular demand, the Christmas Theater program of holiday events is re-streaming Tchaikovsky's family favorite "Sleeping Beauty" from Milan's La Scala on January 16 and 17, after the great success of its Christmas screenings.

Unable to open its doors this year due to the Covid restrictions, the annual Christmas Theater program of holiday events has gone online with a shorter program of live-streamed shows. For the Christmas holiday it will be streaming Tchaikovsky's family favorite "Sleeping Beauty" with the 1966 choreography by Rudolf Nureyev for Milan's La Scala.

Russian Polina Gagarina, the sultry singer of “A Million Voices”, impressed Eurovision fans with her glitzy performance, managing to gain second place for her country in the contest. Though born in Russia, the singer spent the first years of her life in Athens and speaks fluent Greek.

The impressive Polina Gagarina, who placed second in Saturday’s Eurovision song competition with her song “A Million Voices”, only wore her shapely “birthday suit” in a photo spread for the Russian-language edition of “Maxim” magazine in 2012.

Gagarina, who almost won the title and was only bested by Sweden’s entry, had spent many years in Greece, as well.

Sweden narrowly beat Russia May 24 in a nail-biting 60th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, winning its sixth crown in Europe's annual anything-goes music extravaganza.