Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf' and 'Carnival of the Animals': The Sight of Music Rebecca Boggs Roberts reviews books Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf retold by Janet Schulman and Carnival ...

At 60, tired, ailing and scarred by writing to please his Soviet masters, Sergei Prokofiev, Russia’s finest modern composer, sat down to write his Seventh Symphony. His aim, he told Pravda, was to ...

Applause such as is rarely heard burst out in Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall last week. The occasion was a Boston Symphony concert. The heroes: Russian Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky and Russian Composer ...

After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this opera adaptation of Tolstoy seemed unperformable. But in Munich, it has become an urgent antiwar cry. By Joshua Barone A production of “War and Peace” in ...