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Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев; Ukrainian: Сергій Сергійович Прокоф'єв) (27 April [O.S. 15 April] 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the...
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The Love for Three Oranges
The Love for Three Oranges (Russian: Любовь к трём апельсинам, or Lyubov k Tryom Apelsinam in transliteration) is an opera composed in 1919 by Sergei Prokofiev (his opus 33) to a libretto based on the play L'Amore delle tre melarance by Carlo Gozzi....
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- 1919
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- Dec 30, 1921
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Betrothal in a Monastery
Betrothal in a Monastery (original Russian title Обручение в монастыре) is an opera by Sergei Prokofiev, his sixth with an opus number. The libretto, in Russian, was by the composer and Mira Mendelson (his companion in later life), after Richard...
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- 1941
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- May 5, 1946
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The Fiery Angel
The Fiery Angel (Russian: Огненный ангел — Ognenny angel in transliteration) is an opera in five acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on the novel The Fiery Angel (1908) by Valery Bryusov.
Prokofiev encountered...
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- 1923
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- Nov 25, 1954
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War and Peace
War and Peace (Op. 91) (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir) is an opera in two parts (an Epigraph and thirteen scenes), sometimes arranged as five acts, by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer and Mira Mendelson, based on the novel...
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- 1943
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- Oct 16, 1944
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The Gambler
The Gambler (Russian: Игрок — Igrok in transliteration) is an opera in four acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on the story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Prokofiev had decided on this story as an operatic...
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- 1917
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- Apr 29, 1929
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Semyon Kotko
Semyon Kotko (Семён Котко in Russian) is an opera in five acts by Sergei Prokofiev (Op. 81) to a libretto by Sergei Prokofiev and Valentin Katayev based on Valentin Katayev's 1937 novel I Am The Son Of Working People.
One of only two operas written...
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- 1939
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- Jun 23, 1940
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The Story of a Real Man
The Story of a Real Man (Повесть о настоящем человеке) is an opera in four acts by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, his opus 117. It was written from 1947 to 1948, and was his last opera.
The libretto, by the composer and Mira Mendelson, is...
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- 1948
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- Dec 3, 1948
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Maddalena
Maddalena is an opera in one act by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, who also wrote the libretto based on a play by Magda Gustavovna Lieven-Orlov, (using the pen-name Baron Lieven).
Although Prokofiev had already written four operas (the...
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- 1913
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- Nov 28, 1981
