Havana, Cuba - The 19th International Cubadisco music festival opens its doors today in Havana to academic events and concerts by musicians from different countries of the world, including the Minnesota Symphonic Orchestra.

The festival, which runs till May 24, is dedicated to symphonic and choral music and to Russia, which is the guest country.

A concert by the Minnesota Symphonic Orchestra, with the participation of outstanding Cuban pianist Frank Fernandez and the Cuban National and Vocal choirs will open the most important music festival in Cuba tonight at the centrally located National Theater.

Havana - The National Ballet of Cuba (BNC) today will dedicate a staging of the classic Don Quixote to the main musical event of the island, Cubadisco, and Russia, as Guest of Honor of the 2015-edition.

Although the literary work The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote was born in Spain more than four centuries ago, from the pen of Miguel de Cervantes, the first ballet version appeared in Russia in 1869, created by choreographer Marius Petipa and the premiere took place at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

Havana - Maya Plisetskaya was a dancer of much courage, recognized today Cuban Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso, who along with the Russian star marked ballet of the 20th century.

Both dancers were the model to follow by most of dancers worldwide in the second half of that century, they established solid technical and interpretive paradigms, and forged legends.

Holguin, Cuba - The 22nd Romerias de Mayo Festival concludes today here with the sowing of the tree of friendship and hoisting of the Taino Axe, an event attended by more than 350 foreign delegates from 26 nations of the five continents.

Become the World Artistic Youth Festival, from May 2 to 8, the meeting, in which all art converge, has this city, about 774 kilometers east of Havana, as a permanent scenario., sponsored by the Hermanos Saiz Association, bringing together the new Cuban creators.

The 12th Art Biennial will kick off in the Cuban Capital from May 22n to June 22nd, providing a special space for the most renovating art in the world.

Since its establishment in 1984, the art gathering has been able to create spaces in the Cuban capital to host least privileged, not so well known and less visible projects, presenting for the first time new names and the arts of young artists, both from the island and abroad, leaving an imprint in contemporary art, critics, researches, art fans and people in general.

The library "Punto y Coma" in San Antonio de los Baños start selling the new release of the journalist and writer Nicanor León Cotayo.

"Miami pinceladas," the author extends about Miami, one of the major cities that make up the southern state of Florida, but also very related to the history of Cubans.

The author conducted research in books, documents, testimony and a selection of articles he wrote for CubaSi website. The play opens in the XVI century and tells torn particularly significant events in its history until today.