Lowbrow Opera Collective presents Diary of a Madman (Записки сумасшедшего),  written and composed by Dana Kaufman, was a 2015 Semi-Finalist for The American Prize in the Opera/Theater/Film Division,  and is based on the short Russian story of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. Set in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1835, the opera follows the descent of a low-ranking Russian official--Aksentiy Ivanovich Poprischin, the "Madman"--into the insanity and despair Gogol hauntingly depicted in diary format almost two centuries ago.

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