Sergei Prokofiev was born in Sontzovka, in the Ukraine, on April 23, 1891, and died in Moscow on March 5, 1953. He composed the ballet “Romeo and Juliet” in 1935 and 1936, and compiled two orchestral ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has been told countless times in music and art, to the point where it's easy to wonder how anyone could come up with something new. But Sergei Prokofiev ...

Boston University Music Professor Jeremy Yudkin shares his fascinating knowledge of music, music history, composers, orchestras with concert-goers and music lovers ahead of select performances by the ...

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.