includeRomeo and Julietand the 1944Cinderella. Both ballets as well as the first mentioned opera are known to concert audiences from the composer’s own orchestral suites based on them.The Prodigal Sonwas commissioned by Diaghilev and first staged in Paris in May 1929, three months before the ...
More mature operas include The Love for Three Oranges, written in 1919 for Chicago, The Fiery Angel and War and Peace, the last based on Tolstoy’s novel. An early ballet score for Diaghilev proved unacceptable, but later ballets, once rejected as undanceable, include Romeo and Juliet and ...