Prokofiev's opera, with a libretto by the composer, after the novella by Dostoyevsky.
"While this cacophony of sounds, with its incredible intervals and enharmonic tones, may be very interesting to those who love powerful musical sensations, it is completely uninteresting to the singers, who in the course of a whole season have barely managed to learn their parts."
With these words the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg rejected
Prokofiev's opera in 1917. Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, conductor Valery Gergiev