Alexander Kholminov
Alexander Nikolaevich Kolminov (Александр Николаевич Хо́лминов; born 1925) is a Russian composer.
He is best known for the Soviet opera An Optimistic Tragedy based on the play of the same name by Vsevolod Vishnevsky.[1] The role of the commissar was created by Anna Arkhipova.[2][3][4]
Operas
- An Optimistic Tragedy (Optimisticheskaya tragediya) 1965, after the play by Vishnevsky
- Anna Snegina (1967), after the poem by Sergey Esenin
References
- ↑ Music in the USSR. - Page 5 1987 "An Optimistic Tragedy Opera in three acts. Libretto by A. Mashistov and A. Kholminov, based on Vsevolod
- ↑ Daniel Jaffé Historical Dictionary of Russian Music - Page 42 2012 "She created the roles of Klavdiya in Sergey Prokofiev's Story of a Real Man, the Commissar in Alexander Kholminov's An Optimistic Tragedy, Nilovna in Tikhon Khrennikov's The Mother, and Varvara in Rodion Shchedrin's Not Love Alone.
- ↑ Denise P. Gallo - Opera: The Basics 2006 0415970717- Page 125 "One piece that demonstrates the aesthetic, however, is a work whose title translates as An Optimistic Tragedy. In it, its composer Alexander Kholminov lauds military heroism. Works such as this were taken to the various republics subsumed ..."
- ↑ Soviet Literature - Issues 1-6 -1966 - Page 194 "Composer Alexander Kholminov, author of the opera An Optimistic Tragedy performed with success at many Soviet theatres, is now working on a new opera, Anna Snegina, based on Sergei Esenin's poem of the same name and some of the ..."
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