 Among these were successful one-act opera "Anyuta" (1772) to the text by Mikhail Popov, and opera "Melnik – koldun, obmanshchik i svat" ("The Miller who was a Wizard, a Cheat and a Match-maker") to the text by Alexander Ablesimov with music by Mikhail Sokolovsky (1779).The most important contribution in the opera genre were made by Vasily Pashkevich with his "The Carriage Accident" ("Neschastye ot karety", 1779), "The Miser" to the text by Yakov Knyazhnin after Molière (1782), and Fevey to the libretto by Catherine II (1786), as well as by Italian trained Yevstigney Fomin with his "The Coachmen at the Relay Station" ("Yamshchiki na podstave", 1787), "Orfey i Evridika", opera-melodrama to the text by Yakov Knyazhnin (1792), and "The Americans" ("Amerikantsy", comic opera, 1800).In 1746 the first public concert took place in Russia.