Prokofiev: Ivan the Terrible (1990)

Ballet in Two Acts...In 1942 Sergey Prokofiev was commissioned by Sergey Eisenstein to write music for his film "Ivan the Terrible". The score caught the attention of highly acclaimed choreographer Yuri Grigorovich, who set out to make the material and music into a self-contained ballet. But it took until the 1970s for the idea of this ambitious project to be put into action, with the help of Mikhail I. Tchulaki, director of the Bolshoi who composed a ballet score for the new production on the basis of Eisenstein's musical film material. The score of Ivan the Terrible is a collage of no less than 377 fragments of the original film score, but also of other works by Prokofiev.