Irina Elcheva

Irina Mikhaylovna Elcheva (Russian: Ирина Михайловна Ельчева; born 1926) is a Russian composer. She studied at Mussorgsky College and the Leningrad Conservatory. She collected folk songs and completed the opera Spartak in 1962.

References

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

External links

• 500 Operas by Women, Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy