Irina Elcheva

For the Soviet speed skater, see Irina Mikhaylova.

Irina Mikhaylovna Elcheva (Russian: Ирина Михайловна Ельчева; 28 November 1926 – 8 May 2013) was a Russian composer. She studied at Mussorgsky College and the Leningrad Conservatory. She collected folk songs and completed the opera Spartak in 1962.

Elcheva died in St. Petersburg on 8 May 2013, at the age of 86.

References

• Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
• McVicker, Mary (2016). Women Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century. McFarland. p. 143. ISBN 9780786495139.

External links

• 500 Operas by Women, Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy