Simon’s research interests include Russian music, French modernism, and dance-music relationships.
He has written four books: Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement (University of California Press, 2002), The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years (Oxford University Press, 2008), The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013), and Bolshoi Confidential (W. W. Norton & Co., 2016). He also edited two collections of essays, Prokofiev and His World (Princeton University Press, 2008) and, with Klára Móricz, Funeral Games (Oxford University Press, 2014).
