Sergei Prokofiev in Saint Petersburg Conservatory - 24 September, 1913, in the afternoon
from Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 24 September 1913, page 515:
During the night my watch for some reason was two hours slow, so when looked at it on first waking up I went back to sleep again until after eleven. When I realised my mistake I sat down in a panic to study Falstaff, so as to make at least some attempt to prepare the final scene for Tcherepnin. From two until four we went through it with him, and then from four to six the principal singers came for their first class on the opera. Everyone was there, Gabel, Palechek, Tcherepnin, all the conductors and many of the singers. Tcherepnin and I played through all … more >>
Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 24 September 1913. In Anthony Phillips (ed.), Sergey Prokofiev diaries 1907-1914 (Ithaca N.Y, 2006), p. 515. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1446248568984 accessed: 1 December, 2024
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Falstaff
written by Giuseppe Verdi |
performed by Stanislav Gabel, Alexander Tcherepnin, Sergei Prokofiev |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 24 September, 1913, in the afternoon |
Duration | 4 hours |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |