Demonic obsessions in Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel in Rome

Von Renato Verga, 25 Mai 2019

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Teatro Costanzi, Teatro dell'Opera, Rome, am 23 Mai 2019

Prokofjew, Der feurige Engel

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Alejo Pérez, Musikalische Leitung

Emma Dante, Regie

Carmine Maringola, Bühnenbild

Vanessa Sannino, Kostüme

Leigh Melrose, Ruprecht

Ewa Vesin, Renata

Mayram Sokolova, Wahrsagerin

Anna Victorova, Wirtin

Sergei Radchenko, Agrippa von Nettesheim

Domingo Pellicola, Jakob Glock

Maxim Paster, Mephistopheles

Murat Can Güvem, Arzt

Andrii Ganchuk, Faust

Petr Sokolov, Mathias

Timofei Baranov, Wirt in Köln

Goran Jurić, Inquisitor

Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

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With its 1940s setting, Luca Del Fusco’s direction alienates in a new production of Gounod's Shakespeare-inspired opera.

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Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno returns to Rome

Pia Maltri, 7th April

Robert Carsen’s staging of Handel's oratorio arrives, via Salzburg, in the city where Handel composed it in 1707.

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Ariadne in Rome: David Hermann’s Strauss staging highlights contrasts

Pia Maltri, 1st March

In an opera rarely staged in Italy, David Hermann skilfully masters the metatheatrical challenges posed by the libretto to Ariadne auf Naxos.

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Abandon all hope: Lucia Ronchetti's Inferno receives Italian premiere

Pia Maltri, 19th February

The Italian premiere of Lucia Ronchetti’s Inferno at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma uses Dante’s original verses, but her score fails to match their beauty.

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Livermore’s successful Bohème opens at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Pia Maltri, 14th January

Originally staged at the Caracalla Baths in 2014, Davide Livermore’s production comes in from the cold.

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Wagner’s Lohengrin finally returns – swanless – to Rome

Pia Maltri, 27th November

Damiano Michieletto is entrusted with the first staging of Lohengrin in Rome for 50 years, but his distracting staging is redeemed by the musical side of things.

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Renato Verga

Renato graduated from Turin University in Physics. He has always had a particular passion for music and the stage. A former member of a choir, he was raised in the musical milieu influenced by the eminent Italian musicologist Massimo Mila. In 2014, Renato started his own blog, which now has 1000 posts.

Emma Dante's demonic obsessions in Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel in Rome