Into the Storm (opera)

Into the Storm (; V Buryu) is a 1939 Russian-language opera by Tikhon Khrennikov, which won the approval of Stalin.Cook, Bernard A. (2001). Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 723: "The socialist realism of Tikhon Khrennikov's 1939 opera, V Buryu (Into the Storm) won him the favor of dictator Joseph Stalin. In a 1948 speech Khrennikov attacked 'formalism' and the compositions of eminent composers Dinitri [sic] Shostakovich and Sergey Prokofiev." Khrennikov composed the opera to a libretto by the dramatist and writer Nikolai Virta based on Virta's 1935 debut novel Loneliness (Одиночество»). Into the Storm came under fire from Dmitri Shostakovich. p. 257.

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