Sergei Prokofiev is a musical genius and one of the
greatest composers of the 20th century. The
masterpiece of Sergey Sergeevich Prokofiev – the ballet
"Romeo and Juliet" – almost never appeared publicly.
This work – as well as the composer himself - has a
difficult fate.
Prokofiev fled Russia shortly after the Bolshevik
revolution and spent the next 18 years trying to build a
successful career in North America and Europe. Then
he makes a decision which stunned the whole world: in
1936, at the height of Stalin's purges, he returns to the
Soviet Union... The authors explore the life and work of
Sergei Prokofiev, using exposing and often harrowing
testimony from the composer's diary.
