PROKOFIEV

- The Fiery Angel
(Der feurige Engel · L'ange de feu)

Ruprecht: Sergei Leiferkus
Renata: Galina Gorchakova
Inquisitor: Vladimir Ognovienko
Hostess: Evgenia Perlasova-Verkovich
Fortune Teller: Larissa Diadkova
Mother Superior: Olga Markova-Mikhailenko
Agrippa von Nettesheim: Vladimir Galusin
Jakob Glock: Evgeni Boitsov
Mephistopheles: Konstantin Pluzhnikov
Faust: Sergei Alexashin
Host: Evgeni Fedotov
Servant: Mikhail Kit
Mathias: Yuri Laptev
Doctor: Valery Lebed
First nun: Tatiana Kravtsova
Second nun: Tatiana Filimonova
KIROV OPERA AND ORCHESTRA, ST PETERSBURG
conducted by VALERY GERGIEV

- The Kirov production of the Fiery Angel was the most talked about, sold out, theatre experience of 1993. Galina Gorchakova in the main role of a spirit-possessed girl gives a dramatic performance that is destined to become legendary.

- "As for Gorchakova, her voice is huge, dark and heroic, and she wields it in marvellously sweeping phrases, it makes an incomparable effect in a large opera house. I use the word 'incomparable' advisedly: never in live performances have I heard a voice that has so excited me." (Financial Times)

CD 446 078-2 DDD
PAL/LD 070 198-1
NTSC/LD 070 298-1
PAL/VHS 070 198-3
NTSC/VHS 070 298-3
PHILIPS

A production of BBC, RM Arts and Philips Classics Productions