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

References

  1. Music in the USSR. - Page 5 1987 "An Optimistic Tragedy Opera in three acts. Libretto by A. Mashistov and A. Kholminov, based on Vsevolod
  2. 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.
  3. 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 ..."
  4. 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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