The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday 3 March 2010 The article below about a recent Royal Opera House staging of Prokofiev's The ...

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Stéphane Denève observes in Prokofiev's music the "natural flow, with confident, predictable rhythms ... fabulous surprises ... surrealistic but also emotionally devastating [music appealing to] what ...

“L’Amour Des Trois Oranges,” or “The Love for Three Oranges,” a satirical opera by Ukrainian-born composer Sergei Prokofiev, will get its first full-scale production in Korea more than a century after ...

Stéphane Denève will conduct the New York Philharmonic in an all-Prokofiev program featuring the Violin Concerto No. 1, with James Ehnes as soloist; selections from Romeo and Juliet; and The Love for ...

On October 16, 1944, Sergei Prokofiev's opera "War and Peace" debuted for a private audience with piano accompaniment at the Moscow Actors' Center. Prokofiev revised the opera at least a dozen times ...

The first few chords of Sergei Prokofiev’s 1940 opera “Semyon Kotko” have a lush, almost Hollywood quality that makes you think this exercise in socialist realism might be fun. As the Kirov Opera’s ...

A favorite pastime among musically inclined digerati is the creation of "mash-ups," hybrid pop tracks in which, say, the voice of Madonna is digitally spliced into a song by the Sex Pistols. Tom Dean ...

It is a mark of Prokofiev's genius that even when he was writing propaganda music for his Soviet masters, his originality rarely failed to shine through. His last opera, The Story of a Real Man, was ...

Lise Davidsen’s recital at the Met Opera, Gustavo Dudamel leading “Romeo and Juliet,” and a violinist’s personal program are among our selections. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this opera ...

Completed – or so he thought - at the moment of his country’s greatest peril with Hitler’s forces camped in the Moscow suburbs, Sergei Prokofiev’s operatic adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace must ...