Which opera by Sergei Prokofiev is based on a novel by Leo Tolstoy?
"by the composer himself on 13 May 1947 in Moscow. Among recordings of the ""Waltz Suite"" released on compact disc are ones by: Waltz Suite (Prokofiev) Sergei Prokofiev composed and compiled his Waltz Suite, Op. 110, during the Soviet Union's post-Great Patriotic War period of 1946–1947. In creating this work for the concert hall, the composer drew upon waltzes previously written for three of his most recent works for the stage and screen: the opera ""War and Peace"" (completed ""circa"" 1943–1944 but not yet premiered at that time); the ballet ""Cinderella"" (stage premiere, 1945); and, lastly, his score to the"
"Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; ; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian 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,"
"The Love for Three Oranges The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33, also known by its French language title (, ""Lyubov' k tryom apel'sinam""), is a satirical opera by Sergei Prokofiev. Its French libretto was based on the Italian play ""L'amore delle tre melarance"" by Carlo Gozzi. The opera premiered at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, on 30 December 1921. The opera was the result of a commission during Prokofiev's successful first visit to the USA in 1918. After successful concerts in Chicago (including his First Symphony), he was approached by the director of the Chicago Opera Association, Cleofonte"
"made two recordings with Kirov Orchestra in 2001 and London Symphony Orchestra in 2011. Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) Romeo and Juliet (), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". Prokofiev reused music from the ballet in three suites for orchestra and a solo piano work. Based on a synopsis created by Adrian Piotrovsky (who first suggested the subject to Prokofiev) and Sergey Radlov, the ballet was composed by Prokofiev in September 1935 to their scenario which followed the precepts of ""drambalet"" (dramatised ballet, officially promoted at the Kirov Ballet to replace"
"""Ya vas lyubil..."", ""I Loved You""), as well as two operas. The first, ""Birichino di Parigi"" (with an Italian libretto), was produced in Naples, Italy, in 1832 and in Saint Petersburg in 1835. The second, ""Doktor v khlopotakh"" (Доктор в хлопотах, Doctor in Business) was staged in 1851 in Russia. Disillusioned with the response, Tolstoy embarked upon the career of a music critic and, contributing to ""Severnaya Ptchela"", ""Golos"", ""Moskovskiye Vedomosti"" and ""Journal de St. Petersbourg"" earned himself a reputation of an authority, mostly on Mikhail Glinka, Alexander Dargomyzhsky and Alexander Serov. Tolstoy wrote two short novels, ""Kapitan Toldi"" (Капитан"
"The Story of a Real Man The Story of a Real Man (, ""Povest' o nastoyashchem cheloveke"") 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; this in turn was based on the story of pilot Alexey Maresyev. The opera received its premiere on 3 December 1948 at the Kirov Theatre, Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). The audience was made up of Soviet"
"of fresh and innovative ideas. Sometimes it is difficult to qualify these works as pure operas but rather ""opera-ballets"", ""opera-cantatas"", or ""music theatre"". Here is the list: Sergei Prokofiev’s (1891–1953) operas are full of humour, wit, and novelty. Here is the list of his completed operas: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) was another great opera composer struggling all his life in the clutch of the communist ideology. His satirical opera The Nose, after the completely absurd story by Gogol was criticized in 1929 by RAPM as ""formalist"". His second opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District performed in 1934 with an enormous"
"Sonya (War and Peace) Sofya Alexandrovna ""Sonya"" (; ) is a character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel ""War and Peace"", and in Sergey Prokofiev's 1955 opera ""War and Peace"" and Dave Malloy's 2012 musical ""Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812"" based on it. She is the orphaned niece of Count and Countess Rostov. Although sometimes called ""Sonya Rostova"", it is not clear if that is her surname or not; the novel does not tell. ""Alexandrovna"" is a patronymic. At the start of the novel, 15-year-old Sonya is in love with her cousin, Nikolai Rostov, who initially reciprocates her"
"her court were forced to flee Moscow. Eventually, Sofia managed to suppress the so-called Khovanshchina (Khovansky affair) with the help of the diplomat Fyodor Shaklovity, who succeeded Khovansky as leader of the Muscovite Streltsy. With the rebellion crushed, the Old Believers committed mass suicide (in the opera, at least). Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov completed, revised, and scored ""Khovanshchina"" in 1881–1882. Because of his extensive cuts and ""recomposition"", Dmitri Shostakovich revised the opera in 1959 based on Mussorgsky's vocal score, and it is the Shostakovich version that is usually performed. In 1913 Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel made their own arrangement at Sergei"
"Maddalena (opera) Maddalena () is an opera in one act by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, who also wrote the libretto based on a play of the same name by Magda Gustavovna Lieven-Orlov (under the pen name Baron Lieven). That play was in turn based on Oscar Wilde's play ""A Florentine Tragedy"". Although Prokofiev had already written four operas (the earliest being ""The Giant"" which he composed at the age of eight and was written down by the composer's mother), ""Maddalena"" is the first of his works in this genre to which he gave an opus number (op. 13). The"
"The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (, ""Skazaniye o nevidimom grade Kitezhe i deve Fevronii"") is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by Vladimir Belsky, and is based on a combination of two Russian legends: that of St. Fevroniya of Murom, and the city of Kitezh, which became invisible when attacked by the Tatars. The opera was completed in 1905, and the premiere performance took place at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, on February 7,"
"Oresteia (opera) Oresteia (""Орестея"" in Cyrillic) is an opera in three parts, eight tableaux, with music by Sergei Taneyev, composed during 1887-1894. The composer titled this work, his only opera, a ""musical trilogy."" The Russian libretto was adapted by A.A. Wenkstern from ""The Oresteia"" of Aeschylus. The opera was premiered on at the Mariinsky Theatre. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote that soon after the premiere, the Mariinsky management made cuts to the opera, which angered Taneyev. The best-known excerpt from ""Oresteia"" is the entr'acte played before the second tableau of Part III, ""The Temple of Apollo at Delphi."" This passage, as well"
"""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"
"the pages relating to each character together in piles. The Gambler (Prokofiev) 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, of the Mariinsky Theatre, encouraged Prokofiev to compose this opera and assured him of a production at that theatre. Prokofiev wrote the opera in piano score between November 1915 and April 1916, and completed the orchestration"
"Tsefal i Prokris Cephalus and Prokris ( – ""Tsefal i Prokris""), is an opera seria in three acts by the Italian composer Francesco Araja. Dating to 1755, it was the first opera written in the Russian language. Araja composed the opera to a Russian libretto by Alexander Sumarokov after the Metamorphoses of Ovid. It was staged at St. Petersburg in a wing of Zimniy Dvorets on March 7, [OS February 27], 1755 with effective sets by Giuseppe Valeriani. It was the first opera performed with Russian singers. The main roles were performed by Elisaveta Belogradskaya (Prokris) and Gavrilo Martsenkovich known"
"Askold's Grave (opera) Askold's Grave (also: ""Askold's Tomb"", Russian: Аскольдова могила – Askol’dova mogila) is an opera in four acts by Alexey Verstovsky (1799–1862) to a libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin (1789–1852). It was the most successful of Verstovsky's six operas, and its popularity even overshadowed Glinka’s two operas. It is a romantic opera with spoken dialogue, influenced by Weber's ""Der Freischütz"", the latter having become popular in Russia after its first Russian performance in 1824. The role of Torop was created specifically for Alexander Bantyshev. The directors of the Imperial Theatres paid 2,000 rubles to the composer for this opera."
"by Sergei Prokofiev. See image here. (born 1937; died 26 August 2002). (Russian: В.И. Анисимов), bass soloist (of the Odessa Opera House). People's Artist of Ukraine and Honoured Artist of Russia (1973). In 1962 he graduated from the Urals State Conservatory. From 1962 he was a soloist at Sverdlovsk, Ukraine and from 1967 at the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theatre. He gave 40 performances at the Bolshoi Theatre and gained a fine reputation throughout the USSR for singing in Verdi's opera Rigoletto. From 1980 he was soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic. He also taught at the Institute of Contemporary Art"
"Dmitry Donskoy (opera) Dmitry Donskoy ""(""), also known as ""The Battle of Kulikovo ()"" was the first opera written by Anton Rubinstein. It has three acts and a libretto by Count Vladimir Sollogub and Vladimir Zotov, based on a drama by Vladislav Ozerov. First performed in 1852, the opera, apart from its overture, is now lost. Rubinstein asked for a libretto from Sollogub, who had also worked on Glinka's successful opera ""A Life for the Tsar"", on what was ostensibly also a nationalist theme, the success of Dmitry Donskoy at the Battle of Kulikovo (1380) against the commander of the"
"Available recordings: Available recordings: There are no available recordings. Unrealized. The Tale of the Stone Flower (Prokofiev) The Tale of the Stone Flower, Op. 118 (), is Sergei Prokofiev's eighth and last ballet, written between 1948 and 1953. It is based on the Russian Ural folk tale ""The Stone Flower"" by Pavel Bazhov and is also the last of the trilogy of ballets Prokofiev wrote in the Russian ballet tradition. It was premiered posthumously in 1954, conducted by Yuri Fayer. The work is scored for an orchestra consisting of 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling cor anglais),"
"The Gambler (Prokofiev) 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, of the Mariinsky Theatre, encouraged Prokofiev to compose this opera and assured him of a production at that theatre. Prokofiev wrote the opera in piano score between November 1915 and April 1916, and completed the orchestration in January 1917. Vsevolod Meyerhold was engaged as stage"
"The Tale of the Stone Flower (Prokofiev) The Tale of the Stone Flower, Op. 118 (), is Sergei Prokofiev's eighth and last ballet, written between 1948 and 1953. It is based on the Russian Ural folk tale ""The Stone Flower"" by Pavel Bazhov and is also the last of the trilogy of ballets Prokofiev wrote in the Russian ballet tradition. It was premiered posthumously in 1954, conducted by Yuri Fayer. The work is scored for an orchestra consisting of 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling cor anglais), 2 clarinets (1st doubling E-flat clarinet, 2nd doubling bass clarinet),"
"merry chorus of the Red Army. The orchestral suite, Op. 81a, consists of 8 movements, lasting around 40 minutes. Semyon Kotko Semyon Kotko (), Op. 81, is an opera in five acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a libretto by Sergei Prokofiev and Valentin Katayev based on Katayev's 1937 novel ""I, Son of Working People"" (). It was premiered on 23 June 1940 at the Stanislavsky Opera Theatre in Moscow. One of only two operas written by Prokofiev on a Soviet subject (the other being ""The Story of a Real Man""), ""Semyon Kotko"" was composed between the summers of 1938 and"
"Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) Romeo and Juliet (), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". Prokofiev reused music from the ballet in three suites for orchestra and a solo piano work. Based on a synopsis created by Adrian Piotrovsky (who first suggested the subject to Prokofiev) and Sergey Radlov, the ballet was composed by Prokofiev in September 1935 to their scenario which followed the precepts of ""drambalet"" (dramatised ballet, officially promoted at the Kirov Ballet to replace works based primarily on choreographic display and innovation). Following Radlov's acrimonious resignation from the"
"Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy () ( – ), was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist, primarily on the strength of his dramatic trilogy ""The Death of Ivan the Terrible"" (1866), ""Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich"" (1868), and ""Tsar Boris"" (1870). He also gained fame for his satirical works, published under his own name (""History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev"", ""The Dream of Councillor Popov"") and under the collaborational pen name of Kozma Prutkov. His fictional works include the novella"
"and often a high tessitura. It contains some virtuoso passages and incredibly big intervallic leaps, like the major tenth in the second bar of the following example: Askold's Grave (opera) Askold's Grave (also: ""Askold's Tomb"", Russian: Аскольдова могила – Askol’dova mogila) is an opera in four acts by Alexey Verstovsky (1799–1862) to a libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin (1789–1852). It was the most successful of Verstovsky's six operas, and its popularity even overshadowed Glinka’s two operas. It is a romantic opera with spoken dialogue, influenced by Weber's ""Der Freischütz"", the latter having become popular in Russia after its first Russian performance"
"by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy and Alexander Osipovich Starchakov but the whole was later abandoned and discarded. The manuscript was found by Olga Digonskaya, a Russian musicologist, in the Glinka Museum, Moscow in 2004 and orchestrated by Gerard McBurney; this work was premiered on 2 December 2011 in Los Angeles, California by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor) and staged by Peter Sellars (director).[4][5] The first season, episode one, of the 2011 sci-fi and horror dramatized documentary television series, Dark Matters: Twisted But True, features a segment, titled ""Ape-Man Army"", in which the theories of Ivanov on human-ape hybridization"
"he who first staged Sergei Prokofiev's ""War and Peace"", in 1946. He took this opera to Italy for its first full staging there, in 1964. In 1965 in Moscow he directed the first Russian-language production of Benjamin Britten's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". In 1972 Pokrovsky founded the Moscow Chamber Opera Theater with Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and he produced operas such as Igor Stravinsky's ""The Rake's Progress"", Alfred Schnittke's ""Life with an Idiot"", and in 1974 the first Soviet production of Dmitri Shostakovich's ""The Nose"" since 1929. In 1975 he took the Bolshoi Theatre on its first American tour. Pokrovsky's many awards"
"to the Invisible City. Vsevolod leads his bride to the altar with wedding songs, and a Hymn of Joy, as a solemn chorus, ends the opera. Good, Love and Justice are victorious. Act 1<br> Act 3<br> Act 4<br> Audio Recordings: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (, ""Skazaniye o nevidimom grade Kitezhe i deve Fevronii"") is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by Vladimir Belsky, and is based on a combination of two Russian legends: that"
"Anna Karenina (musical) Anna Karenina is a musical with a book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg and music by Daniel Levine. Based on the classic Leo Tolstoy novel of the same name, it focuses on the tragic title character, a fashionable but unhappily married woman, and her ill-fated liaison with Count Vronsky, which ultimately leads to her downfall. Directed by Theodore Mann, the Broadway production opened on August 26, 1992 at the Circle in the Square Theatre and ran for 46 performances. The cast included Ann Crumb in the title role and John Cunningham as Nicolai Karenin. In 1870s Russia,"
"director. However, in the wake of the 1917 February Revolution, that production never occurred. The opera did not receive its first performance until 1929, after it had been extensively revised (in 1927), at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels. Prokofiev prepared an orchestral suite based on the opera in 1931 (see below). The Bolshoi Opera performed the opera at the Metropolitan Opera (The Met) in New York City in 1975, but the Met did not mount its own first production until March 2001. The original version of the opera was finally staged in 2001 at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow,"
"had worked in Perm for three winters and two summers. In 1956, the Perm theatre was renamed in honor of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and given Academy status in 1969. The theatre was awarded the National Glinka Award for the performance of Sergei Prokofiev's ""War and Peace"" in 1984. Also, the artists of the theatre have got the Golden Mask Award for many performances: Many opera premieres in Russia were given in this theatre: Edison Denisov's ""The Foam of Days"", Jules Massenet's ""Cléopâtre"", Claudio Monteverdi's ""L'Orfeo"", George Frideric Handel's ""Alcina"", Antonín Dvořák's ""Rusalka"", Rodion Shchedrin's ""Lolita"", Anton Rubinstein's ""Christ"", Alexander Tchaikovsky's"
"Anna's house, three months later Scene 2: Levin's estate and Italy Scene 3: A villa in Rome Scene 4: Kitty's house Scene 5: A hotel in Moscow Scene 6: Karenin's house Scene 7: St. Petersburg Train Station Anna Karenina (musical) Anna Karenina is a musical with a book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg and music by Daniel Levine. Based on the classic Leo Tolstoy novel of the same name, it focuses on the tragic title character, a fashionable but unhappily married woman, and her ill-fated liaison with Count Vronsky, which ultimately leads to her downfall. Directed by Theodore Mann, the"
"it, notably Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera ""The Maid of Pskov"" and Tchaikovsky's opera ""The Oprichnik"", both of which were also set in the times of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. It also contains typical features such as folk-songs, dances of jesters, chants of monks, and a chorus of praise for the Tsar. Like Rubinstein's earlier opera, ""The Demon"", (1871), it was based on a narrative poem by Lermontov. Nonetheless, ""The Merchant Kalashnikov"" was not a success. It was taken off after its first two performances for political reasons (the climactic execution of Kalashnikov being objected to by Tsar Alexander II). It was"