Aleksander Onisimovich Ablesimov ( rus, Алекса́ндр Они́симович Абле́симов, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐˈnʲisʲɪməvʲɪtɕ ɐˈblʲesʲɪməf, a=Ru-Aleksander Onisimovich Ablesimov.oga; — 1783) was a Russian

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ...

librettist A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major litu ...

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

dramatist A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

satirist This is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for involvement in satire – humorous social criticism. They are grouped by era and listed by year of birth. Included is a list of modern satires. Under Contemporary, 1930-1960 ...

and

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

Biography

Worked as copyist for

Alexander Sumarokov Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov (russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Сумаро́ков; , Moscow – , Moscow) was a Russian poet and playwright who single-handedly created classical theatre in Russia, thus assisting Mikhail Lomonos ...

. Published his

fables Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral ...

and satirical poems. Wrote the

libretto A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the t ...

for the early Russian-language opera by Mikhail Sokolovsky ''

The miller who was a wizard, a cheat and a matchmaker ''The miller who was a wizard, a cheat and a matchmaker'' (Russian: Мельник – колдун, обманщик и сват 'Melnik – koldun, obmanshchik i svat'' – is a Russian ballad opera in three acts with a libretto by Alexander Abl ...

'' (''Мельник - колдун, обманщик и сват'' — ''Melnik - koldun, obmanshchik i svat'' 1779

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

, c.1795

St Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

), which was popular for three decades, and established a new operatic genre in Russia – a comedy about everyday life with spoken dialogue. He also wrote libretti for two comic operas by M. Ekkel and a dramatic dialogue on the opening of

Petrovka Theatre Petrovka may refer to: * Petrovka, Armenia, a town in Armenia * Petrovka, Kyrgyzstan, a village in Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan * Petrovka settlement, a Bronze Age settlement in Zhambyl District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan ** Sintashta-Petrovk ...

Bibliography

*Frolova-Walker, Marina: Russian Federation, 1730–1860, Opera in

The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and theor ...

, vol. 21 *Собрание сочинений изданное в одном томе Смирдиным (неполное), СПБ. *Полное собрание стихотворений (1849) в «Русской поэзии» под ред. С. А. Венгерова, т. I. — СПБ. 1897. *Венгеров С. А. Источники словаря русских писателей. т. I. — СПБ. 1900. *Венгеров С. А. Критическо—биографический словарь русских писателей и учёных. т. I. — СПБ. 1889. *Соч., СПБ. 1849; �оч. в кн.: Русская комедия и комическая опера XVIII в., М.—Л., 1950. *История русской литературы XVIII в. Библиографический указатель. Под ред. П. Н. Беркова, Л., 1968. *Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона (1890—1907).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ablesimov, Aleksander Russian opera librettists Journalists from the Russian Empire Russian male journalists Male writers from the Russian Empire Poets from the Russian Empire Russian male poets Russian dramatists and playwrights Russian male dramatists and playwrights Russian satirists 1742 births 1783 deaths