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    The Gambler (Russian: Игрок — Igrok in transliteration) is an opera in four acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on the...
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  • gambler in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Gambler may refer to: Gambler, a person who gambles The Gambler (1919 film), a German silent film The...
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    Ronald Meyer The novel was the basis of a 1929 opera by Sergei Prokofiev, The Gambler. Several films have been inspired by the book. The Great Sinner...
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    But Prokofiev's greatest interest was opera, and he composed several works in that genre, including The Gambler and The Fiery Angel. Prokofiev's one operatic...
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  • (Opera North, UK) Don Pasquale Donizetti (Opera Zuid, Netherlands) "Gambler" Prokofiev (Opera Zuid, Netherlands) Un Ballo In Maschera Verdi (Lithuanian National...
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  • Licht, Stockhausen, 1996 From the House of the Dead, Janáček, 1930 Galileo Galilei, Glass, 2002 The Gambler Prokofiev, 1929 La gazza ladra Rossini, 1817...
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  • Sergei Prokofiev began his Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19, as a concertino in 1915 but soon abandoned it to work on his opera The Gambler. He returned...
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    was substantially revised for its Soviet premiere in early 1940. Prokofiev made from the ballet three orchestral suites and a suite for solo piano. Based...
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    more like Prokofiev’s pre-Revolution operas (such as The Gambler), even with the ambiguity. The only theme that strays from the ambiguous is the theme involved...
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    a musical composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936. The narrator tells a children's story, which the orchestra illustrates by using different...
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