On May 12, 2025, singer, actor, director, and People’s Artist of Russia Oleg Pogudin will present in Brussels a musical and poetic performance by TROP (The Oleg Pogudin Romance Theater) titled “Vertinsky+. A Literary Cabaret.”

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The performance will feature songs by Alexander Vertinsky, famous Russian romances, music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, and poetry by Anna Akhmatova, Georgy Ivanov, and Marina Tsvetaeva.

Georgy Ivanov once wrote:

“All those who shone in ’13 —

Are only ghosts on Petersburg ice.”

But art has the power to bring them back to life — for manuscripts don’t burn, and there is music above us.

The performance features TROP actors:

Danil Mozhaev, Elena Korobeinikova, and Yulia Stozharova.

Piano part: Oleg Weinstein, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

The Artist’s Creative Biography

Singer, actor, director, and People’s Artist of Russia Oleg Pogudin is one of the outstanding masters of the Russian stage.

Oleg Pogudin is among the most highly acclaimed artists in Russia. The geography of his solo concerts is vast, and the performances he directs are successfully staged in major theaters.

Back in 1999, Oleg Pogudin received the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize with the citation: “For capturing the soul of the Russian romance.”

In 2015, for his outstanding achievements in theater and music, he was awarded the title People’s Artist of Russia.

In March 2023, for his concert-performances “The Golden Age” and “The Silver Age”, which center on Russian classical and urban romance, he received the All-Russian Literary Prize named after Andrey Dementyev.

In 2024, for his significant contribution to Russian culture and musical education, Oleg Pogudin was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of Moscow State University.

“Total dedication and searing sincerity,” “absolute perfection of performance” — these are how audiences describe his concerts.

Critics call Oleg Pogudin a director who preserves the traditions of the great Russian psychological theater.

Exceptional professionalism and artistic boldness, grand themes and attention to detail, watercolor delicacy in vocal phrasing and the fearless brushstroke of a painter creating a grand historical canvas on stage — all of this is present in both the concert programs and theatrical productions of this great Russian artist of our time.