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On January 16, 2017, at 8pm, the Small Stage of Fomenko Workshop Theater will host a concert by actor and composer Nikolai Orlovsky. It will be performed by the theater’s actors and orchestra.

In 2003, Nikolai Orlovsky graduated from both the Russian Theater Academy’s drama department (course taught by B. Morozov) and the Moscow Conservatory (history and theory department, with major in music theory, taught by professor Yu. Kholopov). In 2008, he joined Fomenko Workshop Theater as both an actor and composer.

As an actor, Nikolai is a part of nine productions directed by Pyotr Fomenko, Evgeny Kamenkovich, Ivan Popovski, and others. As a composer, Orlovsky wrote music for “Alice Through the Looking Glass” production (stage director I. Popovski, 2008), and rearranged Paul Dessau’s music for “Mother Courage” production (stage director K. Vytoptov, 2016). The concert’s name speaks for itself. The concert will include both the vocal numbers (set to poems by J. Brodsky, Ye. Yevtushenko, Paul Éluard, and others) and instru-mentals ones, for different groups of performers, including the orchestra. Some of the pieces were composed by Nikolai “for no reason,” but the majority of compositions are a result of his work on stage productions and films. The evening will culminate in performance of the chorus from Pyotr Fomenko’s unfinished production “Boris Godunov”.