PROKOFIEV: THE FIERY ANGEL
Scottish Opera 2017/18: Concert Staging
Cast: Svetlana Sozdateleva (Renata), Evez Abdulla (Ruprecht), Alexei Tanovitsky (Inquisitor), Dmitri Golovnin (Agrippa),
Luke Sinclair (Mephistopheles), Agnieska Rehlis (Fortune-Teller), Maria Maksakova (Abbess, Hostess), Jeremy Knox (Faust)
Conductor: Mikhail Agrest, Director: Max Hoehn
"Sexual obsession, demon summoning, brawling, cannibalism - hardly a typical Glasgow Sunday afternoon. They were onstage all the same in Prokofiev's seldom-performed opera The Fiery Angel, part of Scottish Opera's Sunday Opera in Concert Series. That description doesn't do justice to this ambitious, almost-staging by director, Max Hoehn, without sets but with virtually everything else, and making full use of City Halls' aisles, balconies and choir seats." * * * * Telegraph
"a truly remarkable undertaking" * * * * * Herald Scotland
"...one of the most vivid and memorable musical events of the year" Russianartandculture.com