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The Love For Three Oranges (Prokofiev)
''The Love for Three Oranges'' is a 1919 opera by Sergei Prokofiev. The Love for Three Oranges can also refer to: *The Love for Three Oranges (fairy tale) "The Love for the Three Oranges" or "The Three Citrons" ( Neapolitan: ''Le Tre Cetre'') is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in the ''Pentamerone'' in the 17th century. It is the concluding tale, and the one the heroi ..., Italian fairy tale by Giambattista Basile in ''Pentamerone''Oranges(a play with some music and singing and maybe even a little dancing), a 2018 adaptation by Meg Sturiano with original songs, music, and lyrics by Meg Sturiano and arrangements by Benji Goldsmith. See also * "The Love of Three Oranges" (''Dad's Army''), a 1976 Christmas episode of British series ''Dad's Army'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Love for Three Oranges, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Love For Three Oranges
', Op. 33, is a 1921 satirical French-language opera by Sergei Prokofiev. He wrote his own libretto, basing it on the Italian play '' L'amore delle tre melarance'', or ''The Love for Three Oranges'' ( ''Lyubov k tryom apyelsinam'') by Carlo Gozzi, and conducted the premiere, which took place at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on 30 December 1921. History Composition The opera resulted from a commission during Prokofiev's first visit to the United States in 1918. After well-received concerts of his works in Chicago, including his First Symphony, Prokofiev was approached by the director of the Chicago Opera Association, Cleofonte Campanini, to write an opera. Conveniently the composer had already drafted a libretto during his voyage to America, one based on Gozzi's Italian play in mock ''commedia dell'arte'' style (itself an adaptation of Giambattista Basile's fairy tale). He had done so using Vsevolod Meyerhold's Russian translation of the Gozzi and had injected a dos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Love For Three Oranges (fairy Tale)
"The Love for the Three Oranges" or "The Three Citrons" ( Neapolitan: ''Le Tre Cetre'') is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in the ''Pentamerone'' in the 17th century. It is the concluding tale, and the one the heroine of the frame story uses to reveal that an imposter has taken her place. The literary tale by Basile is considered to be the oldest attestation of tale type ATU 408, "The Three Oranges", of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index. Variants are recorded from oral tradition among European Mediterranean countries, in the Middle East and Turkey, as well as across Iran and India. Summary A king, who only had one son, anxiously waited for him to marry. One day, the prince cut his finger; his blood fell on white cheese. The prince declared that he would only marry a woman as white as the cheese and as red as the blood, so he set out to find her. The prince wandered the lands until he came to the Island of Ogresses, where two little old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
