It became known that Oleg Menshikov's fee for one performance is 103 thousand rubles

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

After the actor became the artistic director of the Ermolov Theater, he set his own salary.

The KP edition was informed about this by the actress Elena Burkhanova-Kalinina, who was among the laid off employees. The artist said that she and her colleagues were puzzled by such an amount. They thought for a long time why such a fee was established, and then they found an interesting coincidence. It is precisely this figure that Menshikov's monthly salary as artistic director is equal, including the bonus for the title of People's Artist. Oleg Evgenievich estimated his one performance on stage at the same amount.

Elena notes, if you compare, you can see that the fee of Alexander Kalyagin, the head of the Et Cetera theater, who also has the title of People's Artist, is 60 thousand rubles. It is not clear why Menshikov's fee is more by 43 thousand rubles.

Against this background, the situation with the reduction of artists looks interesting, because they were fired precisely because of financial difficulties in the theater. At the same time, Burkhanova-Kalinina notes that the team initially accepted the new artistic director positively. People pinned great hopes on Menshikov. However, literally right after his arrival, Oleg Evgenievich immediately removed 24 performances, leaving only 3. At the same time, he promised the actors that they would be involved in new productions, but this did not happen.