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Trouffaldino is so overcome with need of a drink that he cuts open an orange, from which emerges at once a princess, who is equally thirsty. Indeed she dies almost immediately. The same happens with a second orange. For the third a small bottle of delicious Caucasian water magically turns up and the prince has found his beloved. But the latest princess feels improperly dressed for a royal wedding. While the prince departs to ransack the royal wardrobe, Fata Morgana turns the princess into a rat and substitutes for her the black slave Sméraldine. Temporarily the court is at sixes and sevens, with all its members attempting an individual marathon to escape the rat [watch and listen -- DVD2 chapter 12, 47:53-48:45]. Of course all must end happily, with much applause for Prokofiev's imagination as also the vibrant cooperation of this splendid Rotterdam team.

Martial Defontaine as the prince and Sandrine Piau as Princess Ninette at the end of Prokofiev's 'The Love of Three Oranges'. © 2006 Opus Arte
Martial Defontaine as the prince and Sandrine Piau as Princess Ninette at the end of Prokofiev's 'The Love of Three Oranges'. © 2006 Opus Arte

 

Copyright © 16 November 2006 Robert Anderson, London UK

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Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges

OA 0957 D 1xDVD9, 1xDVD5 NTSC 16/9 Anamorphic LPCM Stereo, Digital DTS Surround NEW RELEASE 144' 2005 NPS-Television and De Nederlands Opera, 2006 Opus Arte

Alain Vernhes, King of Clubs; Martial Defontaine, Prince; Natascha Petrinsky, King's neice; François Le Roux, Léandre; Serghei Khomov, Pantalon; Willard White, Tchélio; Anna Shafajinskaja, Fata Morgana; Sylvia Kevorkian, Linette; Magali de Prelle, Nicolette; Sandrine Piau, Ninette; Richard Angas, Cook; Alexander Vassiliev, Farfarello; Marianna Kulikova, Sméraldine; Serghei Khomov, Master of Ceremonies; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera; Martin Wright, chorus master; Stéphane Denève, musical director; Laurent Pelly, stage director and costume designer; Chantal Thomas, sets; Joël Adam, lighting; Laura Scozzi, choreography

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953): The Love for Three Oranges (opera in four acts and a prologue, 1921, with libretto by the composer, based on Carlo Gozzi, French translation by the composer and Vera Janacopoulos)

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