Nino Surguladze
mezzo sopran
Bolshoi s Fiery Angel
The Bolshoi's Fiery Angel is a triumph, but Hugh Canning is in revolt over the other Russian offerings on show
(...) Jurowski conducts the score with evangelical zeal, without disguising its longueurs and paucity of memorable melodic ideas - you sense Prokofiev knew it, too, as he repeats the theme of Antonio's Serenade and Don Jerome's Minuet ad nauseam - and the singing is modest by Glyndebourne standards: Lyubov Petrova is a charming but shrill Louisa, Vsevolod Grivnov and Andrei Breus anodyne as the young male lovers, while Viacheslav Voynarovsky, Sergei Alexashkin and Alexandra Durseneva offer Kirov-style routine and hopeless acting as Don Jerome, the fishmonger Mendoza, and the Duenna. The outstanding performance comes from the delectable Georgian mezzo Nino Surguladze as Donna Clara, the fugitive who takes refuge in the monastery of the title (...)
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The Bolshoi's Fiery Angel is a triumph, but Hugh
Canning is in revolt over the other Russian offerings on show
(...) Jurowski conducts the score with evangelical zeal, without
disguising its longueurs and paucity of memorable melodic ideas -
you sense Prokofiev knew it, too, as he repeats the theme of
Antonio's Serenade and Don Jerome's Minuet ad nauseam - and the
singing is modest by Glyndebourne standards: Lyubov Petrova is a
charming but shrill Louisa, Vsevolod Grivnov and Andrei Breus
anodyne as the young male lovers, while Viacheslav Voynarovsky,
Sergei Alexashkin and Alexandra Durseneva offer Kirov-style routine
and hopeless acting as Don Jerome, the fishmonger Mendoza, and the
Duenna. The outstanding performance comes from the delectable
Georgian mezzo Nino Surguladze as Donna Clara, the fugitive who
takes refuge in the monastery of the title (...)