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Sergei Prokofiev completed eight ballets (The incomplete ballet Ala i Lolli was abandoned and transformed into the Scythian Suite instead). The first five were short ballets, written when he was in the West.
Cinderella (Russian: Золушка, tr. Zolushka; French: Cendrillon) Op. 87, is a ballet composed by Sergei Prokofiev to a scenario by Nikolai Volkov. It is one of his most popular and melodious compositions, and has inspired a great many choreographers since its inception.
Romeo and Juliet (Russian: Ромео и Джульетта, romanized: Romeo i Dzhulyetta), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. First composed in 1935, it was substantially revised for its Soviet premiere in early 1940.
Chout was Prokofiev's first completed ballet score for Sergei Diaghilev.Diaghilev had first commissioned Ala and Lolli but rejected the score submitted by Prokofiev. . Although the composer recast some of the music as the Scythian Suite, the projected ballet never saw the lig
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev [n 2] (27 April [O.S. 15 April] ... Prokofiev's inexperience with ballet led him to revise the work extensively in the 1920s, ...
Le pas d'acier was a major success for Prokofiev and Diaghilev in Paris, where it was performed for three consecutive seasons. Diaghilev was a confirmed supporter of Prokofiev's compositions, going so far as to term him "my second son" (Stravinsky being his metaphorical "first"), and Diaghilev's death in 1929 removed Prokofiev's primary source of ballet commissions and practical support in the ...
On the Dnieper (На Днепре), Op. 51, is a ballet in two scenes with prelude and epilogue by Sergei Prokofiev.Composed in 1931 [1] as his fourth work in the genre, it resulted from a commission by the Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris after the unexpected death in 1929 of Ballets Russes founder Sergei Diaghilev and after the success of The Prodigal Son.
Prokofiev originally wrote the music for the ballet Ala i Lolli, the story of which takes place among the Scythians.Commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev, the ballet was written to a scenario by Russian poet Sergey Gorodetsky.