Colorful and juicy: Prokofiev's L'amour des trois oranges with The Netherlands Opera

By Joanna Marsden, 06 March 2013

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Reviewed at Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam on 1 March 2013

Prokofiev, L’amour des trois oranges (The Love for Three Oranges)

Dutch National Opera

Tomáš Netopil, Conductor

Residentie Orkest The Hague

Chorus of Dutch National Opera

Laurent Pelly, Director

Christian Tréguier, King of Clubs

Martial Defontaine, Prince

Letitia Singleton, Princesse Clarissa

Nahuel Di Pierro, Leandro

Sergei Khomov, Truffaldino

Quirijn de Lang, Pantalone

Kurt Gysen, The Magician Celio

Anna Shafajinskaia, Fata Morgana

Florieke Beelen, Princess Linetta

Julia Westendorp, Princess Nicoletta

Elizabeth Cragg, Ninetta

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