Zubin Mehta / Julia Gertseva by Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Från (2015/2015), Dirigent Zubin Mehta, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florens, Italien

Two great Russian composers of the early twentieth century, Stravinsky and Prokofiev, with two songs inspired by folk motifs of their land. The evening opens with Petrushka , a puppet with a wooden body and sawdust head in an unrequited love with the puppet Ballerina. The cantata of Alexander Nevsky, composed by Sergei Prokofiev, is the version for mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra of the soundtrack of the film by Sergei Eisenstein in 1938, when the Russian prince of Novgorod defeats with his cunning the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Glacier Lake.