Rossini / Prokofiev / Rimsky-Korsakov
La Cenerentola, the comic opera by Gioachino Rossini, premiered in Rome in January 1817. Unlike Charles Perrault's well-known French fairy tale, the composer built it as a realistic yet exceptionally witty and brisk story of mistaken identity, in which true goodness of heart triumphs over evil. Sergei Prokofiev wrote his popular Piano Concerto No. 3 in 1921 during a summer holiday in Brittany, France. The work premiered in Chicago in December 1921, with the composer himself as soloist. The four-movement Sheherazade of 1888 by the Russian Romantic Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is among the most famous and most captivating symphonic poems in classical music. The composer drew his inspiration from the Arabic tales of One Thousand and One Nights.
Page through it with the arrows, keyboard or by dragging a corner of the page. The original is kept in the archive of the Slovak Philharmonic.
