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Romeo and Juliet in Classical Music

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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The Reimagining of the Ballet

The ballet was all set to be performed when those purges began. The entire leadership of the Bolshoi Theater was removed, and the man who commissioned the ballet was executed. Prokofiev had to not only change his story, but simplify his music. Bizarrely, this is the version of the ballet we know today.

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