Irina Elcheva
Irina Mikhaylovna Elcheva (; 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 External links 500 Operas by Women, Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy 1926 births 2013 deaths 20th-century classical composers 20th-century women composers 21st-century classical composers 21st-century women composers Russian opera composers Russian women classical composers Soviet classical composers Soviet women classical composers Women opera composers