Alexander Preys

Alexander Germanovich Preis (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ге́рманович Прейс; 1905–1942) was a Soviet writer of numerous plays and libretti, including those for Shostakovich's operas The Nose and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.[1][2]

References
  1. McMILLIN, ARNOLD (2003). "Gogol′'s "St Petersburg Stories" in the Hands of Russian Composers". New Zealand Slavonic Journal: 174 – via JSTOR.
  2. Wells, Elizabeth A. (2001). "'The New Woman': Lady Macbeth and Sexual Politics in the Stalinist Era". Cambridge Opera Journal. 13 (2): 179 – via JSTOR.

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