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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 by Prokofiev on a Soviet subject (the other being...
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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 subject in 1914, and the conductor Albert Coates,...
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  Don Quixote

  Don Quixote is a ballet originally staged in four acts and eight scenes, based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus. First presented by the Ballet of the Imperial Bolshoi...
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  The Tale of the Stone Flower

  Sergei Prokofiev wrote his eighth and last ballet The Tale of the Stone Flower (Russian: Сказ о каменном цветке, Op. 118) during 1948-50. It is based on the Russian Ural folk tale of the same name by Pavel Bazhov and is also the last of the trilogy of ballets Prokofiev wrote in the Russian ballet...
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  Romeo and Juliet

  Romeo and Juliet (Op. 64) (Russian: Ромео и Джульетта) is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. Music from the ballet was extracted by Prokofiev as three suites for orchestra and as a piano work. Based on a synopsis created by Adrian Piotrovsky (who...
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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 to a libretto based on the play L'Amore delle tre melarance by Carlo Gozzi. The play itself is based on Giambattista Basile's fairy tale ...
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  On the Dnieper

  On the Dnieper, also called Sur le Borysthène in French, is the fourth ballet (Op. 51) written by Sergei Prokofiev. Sergei Diaghilev, the impresario who had led Ballets Russes to distinguished success, died suddenly in 1929, hence ending Prokofiev's collaboration with the troupe. (The Prodigal Son...
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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 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Although Tolstoy's...

• 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 based on the novel of the same name by Boris Polevoy...

• The Prodigal Son

  Prodigal Son is a ballet created for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by George Balanchine, subsequently co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to music by Sergei Prokofiev (1928–29) and the libretto, based on the parable in the Gospel of Luke, by Boris Kochno who added a good deal of drama...