Opera in the Repertoire · Early Modern
Into the Storm
libretto by Aleksey Fayko · premiered 1939 · at Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre
Into the Storm (Russian: В бурю; V Buryu) is a 1939 Russian-language opera by Tikhon Khrennikov, which won the approval of Stalin. Khrennikov composed the opera to a libretto by the dramatist Aleksei Faiko and writer Nikolai Virta based on Virta's 1935 debut novel Loneliness (Одиночество»). Into the Storm came under fire from Dmitri Shostakovich.
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