“More than 200 protesters from the pro-Kremlin youth movement Moving Together gathered outside the theatre, shouting: ‘Sorokin – out of the Bolshoi.’ Vladimir Sorokin, the postmodernist author who wrote the libretto, has been accused of dragging the famous theatre’s reputation into the mud. The opera features a scientist called Rosenthal, who creates clones of the famous composers Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Mussorgsky and Verdi. After his death, the composers are forced to busk outside a train station and Mozart falls in love with a prostitute.”