#Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев

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Anna Tikhomirova and Artem Ovcharenko

Anna Tikhomirova Анна Тихомирова as “Juliet Capulet” and Artem Ovcharenko Артем Овчаренко as “Romeo Montague”, “Romeo and Juliet Ромео и Джульетта”, choreo by Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, libretto by Adrian Piotrovsky Адриана Пиотровского, Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, Sergey Radlov Сергея Радлов and Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, based on the romantic tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare, Gran Gala de las Estrellas Rusas del Ballet Clásico 2024 Russian Classical Ballet Stars Gala, Sala Carlos Piantini, Teatro Nacional Eduardo Brito Eduardo Brito National Theatre, Plaza de la Cultura Juan Duarte Juan Duarte Cultural Center, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana (August 23, 2024).

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OTD in Music History: Composer, conductor, and pianist Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953) is born in what is now Ukraine. Prokofiev's amazingly charmed early life in Imperial Russia was almost a mirror image of his final miserable years, which were spent suffering under Stalin's repressive Soviet regime. Recognized as a child prodigy from a very early age, Sergei Taneyev (1856 - 1915) arranged for the young Prokofiev to spend the Summer of 1902 studying privately with Reinhold Gliere (1875 - 1956). Further lessons with Gliere followed the next year, and then in 1904 Prokofiev traveled with his mother to St. Petersburg to meet Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936), who was a professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Glazunov urged Prokofiev's mother enroll Prokofiev at the Conservatory right away, even though he was still several years younger than most of his classmates. She accepted this invitation, and while there, Prokofiev studied under Anatoly Lyadov (1855 - 1914) for harmony and counterpoint, Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873 - 1945) for conducting, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908) for orchestration. Prokofiev ultimately finished his years of schooling by entering the so-called "battle of the pianos": a highly cutthroat competition open to the five best piano students at the Conservatory, for which the grand prize was a beautiful grand piano. Prokofiev won -- by performing *his own* recently composed 1st Piano Concerto. Soon thereafter, Prokofiev journeyed on to London, where his nascent professional career was jumpstarted by legendary impresario Sergei Diaghilev (1872 - 1929) and his famous "Ballets Russes"… PICTURED: A photograph showing the young Prokofiev at the piano, which he signed and inscribed to a fan in Cyrillic (translated: “To A.A. Likhachev from SPKRF”) in 1927 during his historic return to Russia on his first concert tour of the Soviet Union.

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Arrivals & Departures 27 April [O.S. 15 April] 1891 – 05 March 1953 Celebrate Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev Day!

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (/prəˈkɒfiɛf, proʊ-, -ˈkɔː-, -ˈkoʊ-, -jɛf, -jɛv, -iəf/; Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев, tr. Sergej Sergejevič Prokofjev;] 27 April [O.S. 15 April] 1891 – 05 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard pieces as the March from The Love for Three Oranges, the suite Lieutenant Kijé, the ballet Romeo and Juliet—from which "Dance of the Knights" is taken—and Peter and the Wolf. Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created – excluding juvenilia – seven completed operas, seven symphonies, eight ballets, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, a cello concerto, a symphony-concerto for cello and orchestra, and nine completed piano sonatas.

A graduate of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Prokofiev initially made his name as an iconoclastic composer-pianist, achieving notoriety with a series of ferociously dissonant and virtuosic works for his instrument, including his first two piano concertos. In 1915, Prokofiev made a decisive break from the standard composer-pianist category with his orchestral Scythian Suite, compiled from music originally composed for a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes. Diaghilev commissioned three further ballets from Prokofiev—Chout, Le pas d'acier and The Prodigal Son—which at the time of their original production all caused a sensation among both critics and colleagues. Prokofiev's greatest interest, however, was opera, and he composed several works in that genre, including The Gambler and The Fiery Angel. Prokofiev's one operatic success during his lifetime was The Love for Three Oranges, composed for the Chicago Opera and subsequently performed over the following decade in Europe and Russia.

After the Revolution of 1917, Prokofiev left Russia with the official blessing of the Soviet minister Anatoly Lunacharsky, and resided in the United States, then Germany, then Paris, making his living as a composer, pianist and conductor. During that time, he married a Spanish singer, Carolina (Lina) Codina, with whom he had two sons. In the early 1930s, the Great Depression diminished opportunities for Prokofiev's ballets and operas to be staged in America and western Europe. Prokofiev, who regarded himself as composer foremost, resented the time taken by touring as a pianist, and increasingly turned to the Soviet Union for commissions of new music; in 1936, he finally returned to his homeland with his family. He enjoyed some success there – notably with Lieutenant Kijé, Peter and the Wolf, Romeo and Juliet, and perhaps above all with Alexander Nevsky.

The Nazi invasion of the USSR spurred him to compose his most ambitious work, an operatic version of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. In 1948, Prokofiev was attacked for producing "anti-democratic formalism." Nevertheless, he enjoyed personal and artistic support from a new generation of Russian performers, notably Sviatoslav Richter and Mstislav Rostropovich: he wrote his ninth piano sonata for the former and his Symphony-Concerto for the latter.

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Olesya Novikova (Mariinsky Ballet) as Juliet and Leonid Sarafanov (Mikhailovsky Ballet) as Romeo, “Romeo and Juliet”, choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky, music by Sergei Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, 2019 Les Étoiles Gala Internazionale di Danza, (Daniele Cipriani Entertainment), Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy (January 20 and 21, 2019)

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Viktoria Tereshkina and Kimin Kim

Viktoria Tereshkina Виктория Терёшкина as “Juliet Capulet” and Kimin Kim as “Romeo Montague”, “Romeo and Juliet Ромео и Джульетта”, choreo by Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, libretto by Andrian Piotrovsky Адриана Пиотровского, Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, Sergey Radlov Сергея Радлов and Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, based on the tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare, set and costume design by Pyotr Williams Петр Вильямс, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Viktoria Tereshkina Виктория Терёшкина

Viktoria Tereshkina Виктория Терёшкина as “The Mistress of the Copper Mountain”, “The Stone Flower Каменный цветок”, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, libretto by Mira Mendelssohn Prokofieva Мира Мендельсон Прокофьева and Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, revised by Yury Grigorovich Юрий Григорович after motifs of the Ural tales “The Malachite Box” (also known as “The Malachite Casket”) by Pavel Bazhov Павел Бажов, choreo by Yury Grigorovich Юрий Григорович, design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе. Revival design by Mikhail Sapozhnikov Михаил Сапожников, costume revival design and technician by Elena Netsvetaeva Dolgalyova Елена Нецветаева Долгалева, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Viktoria Tereshkina and Kimin Kim

Viktoria Tereshkina Виктория Терёшкина as “Juliet Capulet” and Kimin Kim as “Romeo Montague”, “Romeo and Juliet Ромео и Джульетта”, choreo by Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, libretto by Andrian Piotrovsky Адриана Пиотровского, Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, Sergey Radlov Сергея Радлов and Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, based on the tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare, set and costume design by Pyotr Williams Петр Вильямс, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Galina Garmash and Gadzhimurad Daaev

Galina Garmash Галина Гармаш as “Juliet Capulet” and Gadzhimurad Daaev Гаджимурад Дааев as “Romeo Montague”, “Romeo and Juliet Ромео и Джульетта”, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, libretto and choreo by Natalia Kasatkina Наталия Касаткина and Vladimir Vasiliev Владимир Василёв; based on the romantic tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare, costume by Iosif Sumbatashvili იოსებ სუმბათაშვილი, Moscow Classical Ballet Theatre Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasiliev Театр классического балета Наталия Касаткина и Владимир Василёв. As part of the program of the Classical Ballet Theatre Festival In Memory of Natalia Kasatkina, Bolshoi Theatre’s New Stage, Moscow, Russia (July 24, 2024).

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Yekaterina Krysanova Екатерина Крысанова

Yekaterina Krysanova Екатерина Крысанова as “Juliet Capulet”, “Romeo and Juliet Ромео и Джульетта”, choreo by Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, libretto by Adrian Piotrovsky Адриана Пиотровского, Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, Sergey Radlov Сергея Радлов and Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, based on the romantic tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare, costume by Tatyana Noginova Татьяна Ногинова, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр (Historic Stage), Moscow, Russia.

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Galina Garmash Галина Гармаш

Galina Garmash Галина Гармаш as “Juliet Capulet”, “Romeo and Juliet Ромео и Джульетта”, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, libretto and choreo by Natalia Kasatkina Наталия Касаткина and Vladimir Vasiliev Владимир Василёв; based on the romantic tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare, costume by Iosif Sumbatashvili იოსებ სუმბათაშვილი, Moscow Classical Ballet Theatre Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasiliev Театр классического балета Наталия Касаткина и Владимир Василёв. As part of the program of the Classical Ballet Theatre Festival In Memory of Natalia Kasatkina, Bolshoi Theatre’s New Stage, Moscow, Russia (July 24, 2024).

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Maria Shirinkina and Vladimir Shklyarov

Maria Shirinkina Мария Ширинкина as “Juliet Capulet” and Vladimir Shklyarov Владимир Шкляров as “Romeo Montague”, “Romeo and Juliet Ромео и Джульетта” choreo by Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, libretto by Andrian Piotrovsky Адриана Пиотровского, Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, Sergey Radlov Сергея Радлов and Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, based on the tragedy by William Shakespeare, set and costume design by Pyotr Williams Петр Вильямс, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Megan Zimny Kaftira and Isaác Hernández

Megan Zimny Kaftira as “Juliet Capulet” and Isaác Hernández as “Romeo Montague”, “Romeo and Juliet Romeo en Julia”, choreo by Rudi van Dantzig, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, based on the tragedy by William Shakespeare, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Liudmila Ulantseva and Even Capitaine

Liudmila Ulantseva Людміла Уланцева as “Juliet Capulet” and Even Capitaine as “Romeo Montague”, “Romeo and Juliet Ромео и Джульетта”, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, libretto by Valentin Elizariev Валентин Елизарьев, based on the romantic tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare, choreo and stage by Valentin Elizariev Валентин Елизарьев, design by Ernst Heidebrecht, Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus Большой театр Беларуси, Opierny Teatr Opera and Ballet Theatre, Minsk, Republic of Belarus.

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Yekaterina Krysanova and Vladislav Lantratov

Yekaterina Krysanova Екатерина Крысанова as “Juliet Capulet” and Vladislav Lantratov Владислав Лантратов as “Romeo Montague”, “Romeo and Juliet Ромео и Джульетта”, choreo by Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, libretto by Adrian Piotrovsky Адриана Пиотровского, Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, Sergey Radlov Сергея Радлов and Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, based on the romantic tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare, costume by Tatyana Noginova Татьяна Ногинова, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр (Historic Stage), Moscow, Russia.

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Megan Zimny Kaftira

Megan Zimny Kaftira as “Juliet Capulet”, “Romeo and Juliet Romeo en Julia”, choreo by Rudi van Dantzig, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, based on the tragedy by William Shakespeare, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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