The Fiery Angel

Overview

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)

Directed by Emma Dante

Top cast

Leigh Melrose

Ruprecht

E

Ewa Vesin

Renata

Sergey Radchenko

Agrippa of Nettesheim

A

Anna Victorova

The Landlady

M

Mayram Sokolova

Fortune-teller/Mother Superior

A

Andrii Ganchuk

Johann Faust/The Servant

M

Maxim Paster

Mephistopheles

Goran Juric

The Inquisitor

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Domingo Pellicola

Jacob Glock

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Petr Sokolov

Mathias Wiessman

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