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ID: MELCD1002353 (EAN: 4600317123537) | 2 CD | ADD Released in: 2015
- LABEL:
- Melodiya
- Collection:
- Opera Collection
- Subcollection:
- Opera
- Ensembles:
- The USSR Bolshoi Theater Choir | The USSR Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
- Other info:
Firma Melodiya presents a unique recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s last opera The Story of a Real Man.
This work is arguably the least known one in Prokofiev’s musical theatre legacy. Finished in 1948, it was never staged in the composer’s lifetime (its “private” performance led to banning the opera and accusing the composer of formalism). Only many years later it saw spotlights, but none of the production lasted long.
The opera, so uncommon in terms of plotline and musical drama, seemed incredible even for an innovator like Prokofiev. The composer who had brought to the stage the characters of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Bryusov was carried away with Boris Polevoy’s novel about pilot Alexei Meresiev (he lost his legs as a result of a severe injury, but at the cost of unbelievable efforts and exercising he returned to the battle ranks). The main character is shown crawling from a shot down plane, in a hospital ward and mastering his artificial limbs at hospital. The character of Alexei, a winner in his own life drama, a man of enormous fortitude who did something seemingly impossible, was an incentive for the composer’s creative imagination.
The dramatic concept of the opera is built on a frame-like sequence of short scenes set off with moving lyrical episodes. The musical language of the opera predominantly consists of declamation and recitative and is full of songful intonations.
The only recording of The Story of a Real Man that now exists was made by the company of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre in 1961 and conducted by young maestro Mark Ermler. The character of Alexei Meresiev became one of the highest achievements of prominent singer Evgeny Kibkalo. The recording also features other celebrated soloists of the theatre such as Glafira Deomidova, Margarita Miglau, Kira Leonova, Alexei Maslennikov, Mark Reshetin and Artur Eisen.
Sergei Prokofiev
The Story of a Real Man
An opera in 3 acts after Boris Polevoy’s novel of the same name
Libretto by Sergei Prokofiev and Mira Mendelson-Prokofieva
Characters and performers:
Alexei - Evgeny Kibkalo
Olga - Glafira Deomidova
Grandpa Mikhailo - Georgy Shulpin
Vasilisa - Vera Smirnova
Varya - Margarita Miglau
Petrovna - Antonina Ivanova
Seryonka - Alexander Suzanov
Fedya - Vladimir Kurguzov
Andrei - Georgy Pankov
Senior Doctor - Vladimir Petrov
Zinochka -Maria Zvezdina
Colonel - Valery Yaroslavtsev
Vasily Vasilievich - Mark Reshetin
Commissar - Artur Eisen
Klavdiya - Kira Leonova
Alexei’s Mother - Valentina Petrova
1st Surgeon - Leonid Maslov
2nd Surgeon - Nikolai Zakharov
Gvozdev - Vitaly Vlasov
Kukushkin - Alexei Maslennikov
Choir and orchestra of the USSRState Academic Bolshoi Theatre
Conductor - Mark Ermler
Recorded in 1961.
CD 1
Introduction
Act I
Total time: 39.19
CD 2
Act II
Act III
Total time: 73.10
CD 1
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| PROKOFIEV, Sergey (Sergeyevich) (1891-1953) | | | The Story of a Real Man (Opera in 3 acts) | | | 1. | A young oaklet grew in the grove (Introduktion) | 1:26 | | | ACT 1 | | | 2. | Knocked down... Damn it! Knocked down, bastards | 4:18 | | | 3. | Entr'acte | 1:56 | | | 4. | Three days on the way, same forest | 3:31 | | | 5. | Do you remember, sweetheart, we were standing close | 1:53 | | | 6. | Artillery! The front's near | 0:55 | | | 7. | Entr'acte | 2:10 | | | 8. | My hands can't hold it | 2:30 | | | 9. | German detachments stormed into our village "Plavni" | 1:15 | | | 10. | Look, there Grandpa and Fedya are | 2:38 | | | 11. | A young oaklet grew in the grove | 2:05 | | | 12. | Entr'acte | 2:16 | | | 13. | What makes you so sad, Varenka | 4:15 | | | 14. | Doesn't eat? No wonder! | 2:02 | | | 15. | That bird was her only joy | 1:30 | | | 16. | Varya! Listen! | 1:07 | | | 17. | Thank you, Seryonka, well done | 3:24 | |
CD 2
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| ACT 2 | | | 1. | Not that again! | 5:57 | | | 2. | Green grove, why aren't you blossoming? | 3:43 | | | 3. | How can he stand such pain? | 1:04 | | | 4. | Listen to my story, good girl | 3:29 | | | 5. | How about the Commissar? | 2:32 | | | 6. | Two girls seem to have dropped out, but diligent Anyuta is writing | 1:02 | | | 7. | Anyuta, Anyuta! For the whole ward to see | 1:11 | | | 8. | Well, crawler, alive? | 2:23 | | | 9. | Alyosha, what are thinking of? | 3:20 | | | 10. | Entr'acte | 2:17 | | | 11. | You had a hard time, but you succeeded | 4:56 | | | 12. | Springtime in Kamyshin, running streams and smell of warm soil | 3:42 | | | 13. | Spring is getting sunnier | 6:40 | | | 14. | My sweet dream | 2:05 | | | ACT 3 | | | 15. | Olya, it's so hard | 3:10 | | | 16. | Friends, you asked to send you to the frontline ahead of time | 2:47 | | | 17. | Waltz | 2:01 | | | 18. | Come to your senses, quick | 0:58 | | | 19. | Rumba | 2:49 | | | 20. | Of course, it would be difficult to us to send you straight to the regiment | 1:25 | | | 21. | How quiet | 3:04 | | | 22. | Our favourite city is calling us | 1:49 | | | 23. | Maslov, Fedotov, Danilov - all are back | 2:26 | | | 24. | Flying! He's flying! | 4:02 | | | 25. | My far away one, today I want | 0:44 | | | 26. | Alyosha, a guards junior lieutnant is here for you | 2:23 | | | 27. | A young oaklet grew in the grove | 0:57 | |
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