
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)

as Ruprecht

as Renata

as Agrippa of Nettesheim

as The Landlady

as Fortune-teller/Mother Superior

as Johann Faust/The Servant

as Mephistopheles

as The Inquisitor

as Jacob Glock

as Mathias Wiessman