Beginning its two-week festival of Prokofiev’s music, the San Francisco Symphony spent Thursday evening searching for the composer’s heart. How to find a way in? Circuitously, it turns out, though the ...

At the end of his first season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1963, Erich Leinsdorf observed the 10th anniversary of the death of Sergei Prokofiev by making him the focus of the ...

In a stunning Los Angeles debut, choreographer Benjamin Millepied offers an innovative and contemporary vision of Prokofiev’s masterpiece Romeo & Juliet. Navigating between film, dance and theater, ...

The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra is kicking off its 2022-23 Masterworks Series with a program of timeless romantic masterpieces Friday night at Buddy Holly Hall. The program, titled "Romeo & Juliet: A ...

Unlike Tchaikovsky’s ballet scores, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet was never considered viable outside the theatre (other than in concert suites) until Gergiev started programming it as a full-evening ...

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NEW YORK — In 1935, Sergei Prokofiev made a devil’s bargain: He moved to the Soviet Union, chasing a lucrative offer to write any opera or ballet he wanted and an opportunity to take command of the ...

DENVER — You might say that Alun Jones is married to “Romeo and Juliet,” the work that he’s choreographing for Colorado Ballet’s spring season. “I first staged the Prokofiev score when I was artistic ...

When Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “Firebird” premiered in 1910, it immediately “took Paris by storm.” “It was a huge success,” explains Andrew Crust, music director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.

London Symphony Orchestra/Valery Gergiev LSO Live LSO 0682 (2 CDs) Politics got in the way of Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet, with the premiere being finally given in Brno in 1938 rather than at ...