YEREVAN. – Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received the staff of Opera and Ballet National Academic Theater who are protesting against dismissal of Constantine Orbelian.

Talking to reporters tenor Liparit Avetisyan said their struggle is not against an individual, but the system manager is a person who is “out of artistic life” of the theater.

“According to the law, the manager is an administrative position. He is just coming to the theater, but he is not well aware of the artistic life. We have been talking about our premiers for already six months thanks to Orbelian,” he said.

Spokesperson for the PM Vladimir Karapetyan said they will discuss demands of the staff.

Constantine Orbelian was dismissed as a manger but remains an artistic director of the theater. Orbelian said he will leave the theater in this case.