Into the Storm (opera)
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Into the Storm (В бурю ; V Buryu ) is a 1939 Russian-language opera by Tikhon Khrennikov which won the approval of Stalin.[1] Khrennikov composed the opera to a libretto by the dramatist Aleksei Faiko (ru) and original writer Nikolai Virta based on Virta's 1935 debut novel "Loneliness" («Одиночество»).
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- ^ Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia Bernard A. Cook - 2001 - Volume 2 - Page 723 0815340583 "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 Shostakovich .."