Musical critic, musicologist and journalist Dmitri Abaulin has been invitied as a project consultant. Head of Dramaturge Department at Moscow’s Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, Dmitri Abaulin contributes to Rossiiskaya Gazeta, Ekran i Ctsena (Screen and Stage) magazine and Kultura (Culture) newspaper and was among those who organized and participated in The Passenger’s premiere in 2006.
On 25 December 2006 soloists, chorus and orchestra of Moscow’s Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre (conductor: Wolf Gorelik; director: Vitaly Matrosov) performed a semi-staged version of Weinberg’s The Passenger at Moscow’s Svetlanov Hall.