The Fiery Angel

Sergey Prokofiev's operatic tragedy The Fiery Angel was never performed in the composers lifetime the musics brittle energy, drama and eloquent lyrical tenderness would re-emerge in his Third Symphony. The narrative focuses relentlessly on Renata, who is haunted by an angel who turns out to be the devil. Director Emma Dante describes the opera as an explosive mix of fantastical realism and endless confusion of nightmares, madness, sexual impulses and cultural clashes, and this Teatro dellOpera di Roma production was acclaimed as a presentation of Prokofievs masterpiece which sparkles in all its grotesque glory (operawire.com)

Cast

Leigh Melrose Ruprecht Ewa Vesin Renata Sergey Radchenko Agrippa of Nettesheim Anna Victorova The Landlady Mayram Sokolova Fortune-teller/Mother Superior Andrii Ganchuk Johann Faust/The Servant Maxim Paster Mephistopheles Goran Juric The Inquisitor Domingo Pellicola Jacob Glock Petr Sokolov Mathias Wiessman

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