Kashperov, Vladimir Nikitich (1826–1894)

Russian composer. He studied with Henselt in St Petersburg and later in Berlin and Italy. He was professor of singing at the Moscow Conservatory 1866–72.

Works operas The Gypsies, Mary Tudor (after Victor Hugo, Milan, 1859), Rienzi (after Bulwer-Lytton, Florence, 1863), Consuelo (after George Sand, Venice, 1865), The Storm (after Ostrovsky, Moscow, 1867), and Taras Bulba (after Gogol, Moscow, 1893).