#Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев

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Anastasiya Lukina, Yevgeny Konovalov and Renata Shakirova

Anastasiya Lukina Анастасия Лукина as “Katerina”, Yevgeny Konovalov Евгений Коновалов as “Danila” and Renata Shakirova Рената Шакирова 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, choreography 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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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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Claire Calvert

Claire Calvert as “Fairy Godmother”, “Cinderella”, choreo by Sir Frederick Ashton, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, set design by Tom Pye, costumes design by Alexandra Byrne, staging by Gary Avis and Wendy Ellis Somes, The Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, England.

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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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Audrey Malek and Kuu Sakuragi

Audrey Malek as “The Siren” and Kuu Sakuragi as “The Prodigal Son”, “Prodigal Son”, libretto by Boris Kochno, choreo by George Balanchine, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев (“Le Fils Prodigue”), set and costume by Georges Rouault. As part of the program “All Balanchine” (“Square Dance“, “Prodigal Son” and “Stravinsky Violin Concerto“), Pacific Northwest Ballet, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Liudmila Khitrova Людмила Хитрова

Liudmila Khitrova Людмила Хитрова as “Cinderella”, “Cinderella Золушка”, libretto by Konstantin Kuznyatsov Канстанціна Кузняцов based on the fairy talke of the same name by Charles Perrault, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, choreo and staging by Konstantin Kuznyatsov Канстанціна Кузняцов and Yuliya Dziatko Юлія Дзятко, sets and costumes design by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев and Lyubov Sydelnikova Любоў Сідзельнікава, Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus Большой Tеатр Беларуси, Opierny Teatr Opera and Ballet Theatre, Minsk, Republic of Belarus (July 6, 2024).

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Elle Macy and Lucien Postlewaite

Elle Macy as “The Siren” and Lucien Postlewaite as “The Prodigal Son”, “Prodigal Son”, libretto by Boris Kochno, choreo by George Balanchine, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев (“Le Fils Prodigue”), set and costume by Georges Rouault. As part of the program “All Balanchine” (“Square Dance“, “Prodigal Son” and “Stravinsky Violin Concerto“), Pacific Northwest Ballet, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Elle Macy and Lucien Postlewaite

Elle Macy as “The Siren” and Lucien Postlewaite as “The Prodigal Son”, “Prodigal Son”, libretto by Boris Kochno, choreo by George Balanchine, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев (“Le Fils Prodigue”), set and costume by Georges Rouault. As part of the program “All Balanchine” (“Square Dance“, “Prodigal Son” and “Stravinsky Violin Concerto“), Pacific Northwest Ballet, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Elle Macy and Lucien Postlewaite

Elle Macy as “The Siren” and Lucien Postlewaite as “The Prodigal Son”, “Prodigal Son”, libretto by Boris Kochno, choreo by George Balanchine, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев (“Le Fils Prodigue”), set and costume by Georges Rouault. As part of the program “All Balanchine” (“Square Dance“, “Prodigal Son” and “Stravinsky Violin Concerto“), Pacific Northwest Ballet, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Arrivals & Departures - 23 April 1891 Celebrate Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev Day!

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (/prəˈkɒfiɛf, proʊ-, -ˈkɔː-, -ˈkoʊ-, -jɛf, -jɛv, -iəf/; Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев, tr. Sergej Sergejevič Prokofjev; 23 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard works 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 St 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, 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.