PROKOFIEV, S.: Fiery Angel (The) [Opera] (Kirov Opera, 1993) (PAL)

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Prokofiev, Sergey, Composer.

Naxos Digital Services US

Series:

Naxos Video Library

Language:

English

Genre:

Nonfiction films

Opera films

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online

digital

video file

Summary:

Prokofiev'sdisturbingly enigmatic opera, The Fiery Angel</i>, was never performed in his lifetime - considered too decadent by Stalin and his successors - but David Freeman's imaginative production asserts it as one of the composer's greatest masterpieces. Ostensibly, it is a tale of religious hysteria and demonic possession, but the novel, by the Russian decadent Valéry Bryusov, from which the opera is derived, also explores symbolically the love triangle endured by the writer himself, inspired by the self-destructive figure of his lover, the poet Nina Petrovskaya.David Freeman has completely entered into this opera's strangely unnerving world. Evil is all around us and in his sensational production the image is taken quite literally

Contents:

Ognennïy angel (The Fiery Angel), Op. 37 (Kirov Opera, 1993) (PAL) ( 02 hrs., 04 minutes ) / Prokofiev

Participant:

Gorchakova, Galina, Artist -- Leiferkus, Sergey, Artist -- Kit, Mikhail, Artist -- Galouzine, Vladimir, Artist -- Kirov Opera Chorus, Choir -- Gergiev, Valery, Conductor -- Dyadkova, Larissa, Artist -- Kirov Opera Orchestra, Orchestra -- Laptev, Yuri, Artist -- Perlasova-Verkovich, Evgenia, Artist -- Boitsov, Evgeni, Artist -- Prokofiev, Sergey, Composer

Notes:

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Streaming video

Publisher Number:

0807280039191

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