Alexandrov Ensemble: Chorus from the Opera 'Dawn' by Kirill Molchanov.

Recorded in 1955, this is a very early recording of Evgeny Belyaev as a soloist with the Ensemble. He sounds young and relatively unformed, but what potential is there!

Kiril Vladimirovich Mokchanov )Кирилл Владимирович Молчанов) (1922-1982) was a quite prolific Russian and Soviet composer, who was Director of the Bolshoi and, according to Yandex and Wikipedia, wrote in the Socialist Realist tradition. I cannot find out much about this opera 'Dawn' and it is obviously not much performed nowadays.

Photo credit: Leonid Kharitonov archive.

Видео Alexandrov Ensemble: Chorus from the Opera 'Dawn' by Kirill Molchanov. канала Dianochka