Shakespeare’s timeless love story takes the stage at the Civic Center Music Hall February 20–22, as Oklahoma City Ballet performs the dramatic ballet set to Sergei Prokofiev’s sweeping score.

NEW YORK — In 1935, Sergei Prokofiev made a devil’s bargain: He moved to the Soviet Union, chasing a lucrative offer to write any opera or ballet he wanted and an opportunity to take command of the ...

Boston University Music Professor Jeremy Yudkin shares his fascinating knowledge of music, music history, composers, orchestras with concert-goers and music lovers ahead of select performances by the ...

Sergei Prokofiev was born in Sontzovka, in the Ukraine, on April 23, 1891, and died in Moscow on March 5, 1953. He composed the ballet “Romeo and Juliet” in 1935 and 1936, and compiled two orchestral ...

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has been told countless times in music and art, to the point where it's easy to wonder how anyone could come up with something new. But Sergei Prokofiev ...

The Houston Symphony welcomes Long Yu when he leads the orchestra in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. Yu will lead Huanzhi’s Spring Festival Overture and Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5, performed by ...

Kenneth MacMillan’s passionate choreography for Romeo and Juliet shows The Royal Ballet at its dramatic finest. Sergey Prokofiev’s famously evocative score is the driver for some of the most ardent ...

In 1935, Sergei Prokofiev made a devil’s bargain: He moved to the Soviet Union, chasing a lucrative offer to write any opera or ballet he wanted and an opportunity to take command of the country’s ...

Kenneth MacMillan's passionate choreography for Romeo and Juliet shows The Royal Ballet at its dramatic finest. Sergey Prokofiev's iconic score provides the basis for the ballet's romantic pas de deux ...

Critic Ted Libbey recommends this recording of Romeo and Juliet performed by the Cleveland Orchestra with conductor Lorin Maazel. William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has been told countless times ...

Valery Gergiev is the world's hottest guest conductor at the moment. This hour he leads the Radio France Philharmonic in concert. But before we get to that, we get a taste of Gergiev's sound on CD. He ...