In which Sergei Prokofiev gets credit for a play I wrote half a century after his death

The Love of 3 Oranges is a Commedia D’ell Arte scenario by Carlo Gozzi around 1761. The play was later adapted in 2002 by the brilliant composer Sergei Prokofiev as a full stage play. –SOURCE.

Someone’s research went terribly wrong here.

Sergei Prokofiev wrote an opera version of Three Oranges in 1921. Prokofiev was most definitely dead by 2002 as he died in 1953. Hillary DePiano (aka me) wrote a stage play version of Three Oranges in 2002. Zombie Prokofiev was no help at all with it.

While normally this whole chicken/egg thing with Prokofiev drives me nuts, I’m going to go ahead take this as a compliment as it is definitely the first time anyone has ever referred to me as a brilliant composer. (Of words, I’m assuming, as I can’t write music.) 

I may put it on my business cards.

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