The Love for Three Oranges

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The Love for Three Oranges

opera by Prokofiev

Also known as: “L’Amour des trois oranges”, “L’amore delle tre melarance”(Show More)

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- Sergey Prokofiev
  Pre-Revolutionary period
  …he planned a new opera, The Love for Three Oranges, after a comedy tale by the 18th-century Italian dramatist Carlo Gozzi, as translated and adapted by Meyerhold. In the summer of 1917 Prokofiev was included in the Council of Workers in the Arts, which led Russia’s left wing of artistic…
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  …he planned a new opera, The Love for Three Oranges, after a comedy tale by the 18th-century Italian dramatist Carlo Gozzi, as translated and adapted by Meyerhold. In the summer of 1917 Prokofiev was included in the Council of Workers in the Arts, which led Russia’s left wing of artistic…
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- Italian literature
  Goldoni’s reform of comedy
  …Oranges), later made into an opera by Sergey Prokofiev, and the original Turandot, later set to music by Giacomo Puccini.
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  …Oranges), later made into an opera by Sergey Prokofiev, and the original Turandot, later set to music by Giacomo Puccini.
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- opera
  Russian opera
  …des trois oranges (Chicago, 1921; The Love for Three Oranges, his own libretto) and the lurid opera of hallucination, Angel of Fire or The Fiery Angel (radio premiere 1954; Ognennïy angel, his own libretto after a story by Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov). Of Prokofiev’s Soviet-period operas, the most winning is the…
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  …des trois oranges (Chicago, 1921; The Love for Three Oranges, his own libretto) and the lurid opera of hallucination, Angel of Fire or The Fiery Angel (radio premiere 1954; Ognennïy angel, his own libretto after a story by Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov). Of Prokofiev’s Soviet-period operas, the most winning is the…
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