1. Elena Borisovna Frolova is a Russian singer-songwriter, composer, and poet.
13 Facts About Elena Frolova
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Elena Frolova is author and performer of songs based on poems by many Russian poets of twentieth century, including Marina Tsvetaeva, Sophia Parnok, Joseph Brodsky, Anna Barkova, Andrei Belyi, Varlam Shalamov, Maria Petrovykh, Veniamin Blazhenny, Bulat Okudzhava, and many others, as well as her own poetry.
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Elena Frolova was a winner of many song and music festivals, including the Second All-Union Festival in Tallinn in 1988.
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Since 1988 Elena Frolova performed together with Vera Evushkina, in the author's duet "VerLen".
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Elena Frolova is a co-founder and active member of creative group "ASiA", together with Tatiana Aleshina, Alexander Derevyagin and Nicholai Yakimov.
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Elena Frolova is a member of juries in Russian art song festivals, including Grushinsky festival.
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Since 1989, Elena Frolova worked in Moscow Theatre of Music and Poetry directed by Elena Kamburova.
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Elena Frolova is a member of Union of Russian Writers.
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In 1996, Elena Frolova has mastered a new instrument, gusli, to perform Russian folk and other songs.
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Elena Frolova performed in Theatre de la Ville, Bienvenue a la Maison des Cultures du Monde and Theatre des Abbesses in Paris, Teatro de la Republica in Mexico, as well as in Barcelona, Madrid, Brussels and Antwerp.
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Elena Frolova took part in the congress "The historical experience of the Soviet Communist totalitarianism: the opposition to Gulag" in Milan in 2003 with the program on poems by Varlam Shalamov.
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Elena Frolova performed romance Don't wake her up at dawn.
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Elena Frolova composed many songs on her own poetry, one of the most popular being A Straw.