The L.A. Phil opens a Hollywood Bowl season filled with Russian music as Thomas Sondergard conducts and pianist Kirill ...

Thomas Søndergård, great and not so great, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in their first Hollywood Bowl concert of the ...

Prokofiev and the librettist, Mira Mendelson (his second wife), reduced the plot to a telling parallel between Natasha’s losing her way in her lust for Anatole and the French fashions he ...

Wolves get a bad rap in stories like “The Three Little Pigs,” “Red Riding Hood,” “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” and countless ...

News about Sergei Prokofiev. Commentary and archival information about Sergei Prokofiev from The New York Times.

Prokofiev stated in his diary that according to Rubinstein, a Belgian director attached to the project “possessed a quality of suffering only a Jew can know, rather than a Frenchman.” ...

The theatrical concert version of "Romeo and Juliet" does not feature the ballet’s full score. Instead, it features excerpts ...

Fate determined that Prokofiev and Stalin should die on the same day – 5 March 1953. The composer's funeral, attended by 40 friends and family members, was hastily conducted a few hours before ...

Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto is a very demanding work, and soloist Liu proved more than up to the task, smoothly navigating its shifting moods, intensely aggressive one moment, ...

Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" is one of those early 20th century ballets with music that has filtered into the standard orchestral repertoire. And for good reason.