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Occult, mystical, extreme: Treliński brings Prokofiev’s Fiery Angel to the Aix Festival

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“an intoxicating mix of the mundane, the occult, the supernatural and extreme emotions”
Reviewed at Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence on 5 July 2018
Prokofiev, The Fiery Angel
Kazushi Ono, Conductor
Mariusz Treliński, Director
Boris Kudlička, Set Designer
Kaspar Glarner, Costume Designer
Scott Hendricks, Ruprecht
Aušrinė Stundytė, Renata
Agnieszka Rehlis, Mother Superior, Sorceress
Andrei Popov, Agrippa van Nettelsheim, Mephistopheles
Pavlo Tolstoy, Jakob Glock, The doctor
Krzysztof Bączyk, Faust, Inquisitor
Łukasz Goliński, Mathias, The Innkeeper at Cologne
Bernadetta Grabias, Hostess of the Inn
Chorus of the Teatr Wielki
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