Opera

Serguéi Prokófiev

The fiery angel

22 Mar, 22 - 05 Apr, 22

Conductor |Gustavo Gimeno Stage Director | Calixto Bieito Titular Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real

22 Mar 22

Estreno

05 Apr 22

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The Weimar Republic, oasis of liberty and cradle of extremism, welcomed - with a varying degree of scandal - such radical operas as the blasphemous Sancta Susanna of Paul Hindemith, the atonal and anti- militarist Wozzeck of Alban Berg, or the multi-racial and jazz like Jonny spielt auf of Ernst Krenek. In spite of this background, not even the mediation of the prestigious conductor Bruno Walter was sufficient to bring The Fiery Angel by Sergei Prokofiev to the stage of the Deutsche Oper of Berlin. The constant setbacks with respect to the work led the composer to desist with its debut and re-use the principal musical material in the third of his symphonies, first heard in Paris in 1929. Furthermore, the rise of Nazism in Germany and the hardening of cultural politics in the Soviet Union also delayed the opening of The Fiery Angel. In the end, it opened posthumously in 1954 at the Teatro La Fenice of Venice. The production by Calixto Bieito extracts all the potential from this work in a most convincing and spine-chilling way. The action takes place in a closed society of the 1950s, taking this story of witchcraft, sex and religion to the realism of imitation leather sofas, crochet cardigans, medical abuse and child molestation

Opera in five acts

Music and libretto by Sergéi Prokófiev (1891-1953)

Libretto based on the homonymous novel (1907), by Valery Bryusov

Premiered in the Teatro La Fenice of Venecia, November 25,1954

Premiered in the Teatro Real

New production in the Teatro Real, in collaboration with the Opernhaus of Zúrich

ARTISTIC TEAM

Musical condutor I Gustavo Gimeno

Stage director I Calixto Bieito

Stage designer I Rebecca Ringst

Costume designer I Ingo Krügler

Light designer I Franck Evin

Video designer I Sarah Derendinger

Dramatist I Beate Breidenbach

Choir director I Andrés Máspero

Titular Orchesta and Choir of the Teatro Real
(Coro Intermezzo / Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid)

CAST

Renata I Ausrine Stundyte - 22, 25, 28, 31 mar; 3, 5 apr

I Elena Popovskaya - 23, 26 mar; 1, 4 apr

Ruprecht I Leigh Melrose - 22, 25, 28, 31 mar; 3, 5 apr

I Dimitris Tiliakos - 23, 26 mar; 1, 4 apr

Agrippa von Nettesheim / Mefistófeles I Dmitry Golovnin - 22, 25, 28, 31 mar; 3, 5 apr

I Vsevolod Grivnov - 23, 26 mar; 1, 4 apr

La Madre Superiora / Vidente I Agnieszka Rehlis - 22, 25, 28, 31 mar; 3, 5 apr

I Olesya Petrova - 23, 26 mar; 1, 4 apr

El Inquisidor I Mika Kares - 22, 25, 28, 31 mar; 3, 5 apr

I Pavel Daniluk - 23, 26 mar; 1, 4 apr

Posadera I Nino Surguladze

Fausto I Dmitry Ulyanov

Jackob Glock / Doctor I Josep Fadò

Mathias / Posadero I Gerardo Bullón

El Conde Heinrich / El Padre I Ernst Alisch

Waiter I David Lagares

Novice I | Estibaliz Martyn

Novice II | Anna Gomà

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Creative team

Musical conductor Gustavo Gimeno

Stage Director Calixto Bieito

Escenógrafa Rebecca Ringst

Figurinista Ingo Krügler

Diseñadora de audiovisuales Sarah Derendinger

Dramaturgia Beate Breidenbach

Chorus Conductor Andrés Máspero

Iluminador Franck Evin

Cast

Renata Ausrine Stundyte

Renata Elena Popovskaya

Ruprecht Leigh Melrose

Ruprecht Dimitris Tiliakos

Agrippa Von Nettesheim / Mefistófeles Dmitry Golovnin

Agrippa Von Nettesheim / Mefistófeles Vsevolod Grivnov

La Madre Superiora / Vidente Agnieszka Rehlis

La Madre Superiora / Vidente Olesya Petrova

El Inquisidor Mika Kares

El Inquisidor Pavel Daniluk

Posadera Nino Surguladze

Fausto Dmitry Ulyanov

Jackob Glock / Doctor Josep Fadó

Mathias / Posadero Gerardo Bullón

El Conde Heinrich / El Padre Ernst Alisch

Waiter David Lagares

Novicia I Estibaliz Martyn

Novicia II Anna Gomà

El ángel de fuego, de Prokófiev

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