The Power of the Lamp

The son of a modest tailor, guided by a sorcerer, discovers a magical lamp that brings him fortune. Aladdin is now part of our collective imagination, but who knows the colorful and enchanting music that the Danish composer Carl Nielsen offered to it in 1919? Fifteen years later, Serge Prokofiev composed the soundtrack for a Russian film that tells the comical story of a military officer in the Tsar's army, Lieutenant Kijé. This character, creat...