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 ...

When the Salzburg festival mounted a production of Sergei Prokofiev’s “The Gambler” in 2024, it wasn’t the usual gamble. Audiences don’t flock to the composer’s operas because they’re grim, often ...

SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — Offbeat operas have been some of the Salzburg Festival’s best in recent years, the latest a colorful, outlandish and entertaining staging of Sergei Prokofiev’s “The Gambler” ...

In the West, at least, Sergei Prokofiev is known for his sonatas, his concertos, his symphonies, his ballets . . . But he is not really known for his operas. Should his operas be better known? That is ...

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Author Owen Belcher is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the UMKC Conservatory. March 5 marks the 69th anniversary of the death of Ukrainian-born composer Sergei Prokofiev. Most people think of ...

Sergei Prokofiev loved to write operas, but the world did not seem to care for them. His first mature one, Magdalene, was never produced; his second, The Gambler, had one performance in Brussels and ...

Sergei Prokofiev was an established musical revolutionary of 26 when the Bolsheviks spread flame and famine across Russia in 1917. He had outjangled Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in his pagan Scythian ...