Alexander Nikolaevich Kolminov (Александр Николаевич Хо́лминов; 8 September 1925 — 26 November 2015), PAU, was a Soviet and Russian composer. He is best known for the Soviet opera ''An Optimistic Tragedy'' based on the play of the same name by

Vsevolod Vishnevsky Vsevolod Vitalyevich Vishnevsky (, – 28 February 1951) was a Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter, playwright and journalist. Early life He was born in 1900 in Saint Petersburg and educated at a Petersburg gymnasium. During World War I ...

. The role of the commissar was created by Anna Arkhipova.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 ..."

Operas

*''An Optimistic Tragedy'' (Optimisticheskaya tragediya) 1965, after the play by Vishnevsky *'' Anna Snegina'' (1967), after the poem by

Sergey Esenin Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (, ; 1895 – 28 December 1925), sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century. One of his narratives was "lyrical evocations ...

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