Premiering on this day in 1921 Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre, Sergei Prokofiev’s satirical French-language opera (Любовь к трём апельсинам, The Love for Three Oranges, based on an seventeenth century Italian fairy tale of the same name) resulted from a commission after his first series of performances in the United States were well received by audiences. _-_53Fi4137_(cropped).jpg)
Reception to his avant-garde works (see previously here, here and here)by Americans may strike as a bit unlikely and whilst initial criticism was harsh, crowds flocked to see a commedia dell’arte piece (a parody of the genre) instilled with surrealism in a foreign language and has seen multiple revivals over the decades. The most familiar leitmotiv from the opera is the below march movement, referenced in popular culture, including the contemporary novel by F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender in the Night, with the protagonist awakening from a dream sequence of a military parade set to the music.
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Reception to his avant-garde works (see previously here, here and here)by Americans may strike as a bit unlikely and whilst initial criticism was harsh, crowds flocked to see a commedia dell’arte piece (a parody of the genre) instilled with surrealism in a foreign language and has seen multiple revivals over the decades. The most familiar leitmotiv from the opera is the below march movement, referenced in popular culture, including the contemporary novel by F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender in the Night, with the protagonist awakening from a dream sequence of a military parade set to the music.
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synchronoptica
one year ago: calendrical correspondence (with sychronopticæ), 2024 in review, Bloomberg’s Jealousy List plus The Pirate of Penzance Broadway premiere
twelve years ago: predictions v projections plus proto-memes
fifteen years ago: treacherous driving conditions plus more security theatre
