Opera / Sergei Prokofiev / The Fiery Angel (french version)

Here are ten minutes of Sergei Prokofiev’s great opera ’The fiery angel’, french version. The opera was completed in 1927, but the World Premiere w...Here are ten minutes of Sergei Prokofiev’s great opera ’The fiery angel’, french version. The opera was completed in 1927, but the World Premiere was only after Prokofiev’s death (March 5th, 1953, the same day as Stalin’s death), on the 25th of November 1954 in Paris. This recording is taken from the world premiere recording in 1957, also in Paris. It’s a great recording, at least as much as enjoyable as the available Russian ones that I’m also familiar with, the ones greatly conducted by Järvi and by Gergiev. In this french version Jane Rhodes sings Renata and Ruprecht is sung by Xavier Depraz. Charles Bruck conducts the Orchestre du Theatre National de L’Opera de Paris. The only real disadvantage of this french version recording is that it is in mono and of course it lacks somewhat of the dynamics we are used to nowadays in a modern recording