Description

Prokofiev: Betrothal In A Monastery - Anna Netrebko, Larissa Diadkova, Nikolai Gassiev, Sergei Aleksashkin, Kirov Opera & Ballet, Valery Gergiev /

Philips DVD Video CD 2005

UPC 044007430767
NTSC DVD
Region Code: 123456
Duration: 157 mins
Menu Screens: English
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese

Betrothal in a Monastery (Russian title Обручение в монастыре) is an opera in nine scenes (four acts) by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer and Mira Mendelson after Sheridan's The Duenna.

Prokofiev began the work in 1940, and it was in rehearsal that year, but World War II halted production of the opera. The composer revised the score in Almaty in 1943. The first performance did not occur until 3 November 1946 at the Kirov Theatre with Boris Khaikin conducting. The producer was I. Shlepianov.

Commentators have noted that, given the context of its creation in the 1940s in the Soviet Union, this opera lacks any particular political or social comment, except perhaps for a scene involving drunken monks.

Label:	Philips – 074 3076
Format:	DVD, DVD-Video, NTSC, DTS
Country:	Europe
Released:	Aug 1, 2005
Genre:	Classical
Style:	Opera

Tracklist:

	Betrothal In A Monastery, Op.86
1	Titles	1:26
2	Prelude	1:55
	Act 1 - Tableau 1
3	Scene 1: "But That Is Just Fantasy!"	3:18
4	Scene 2: "Plain. Round-shouldered"	4:08
5	Scene 3: "She has shaken your hand"	4:18
6	Scene 4: "The Moon Looks In At Your Window"	3:59
7	Scene 5: "Stop That Mewing"	2:13
8	Scene 6: Masker's Dance	3:22
9	Scene 7: " I had better get her married her off"	3:21
10	Scene 8: "Friends, Depart"	3:14
	Act 2 - Tableau 2
11	Scene 1: It Will Work, Nanny, Won't It?"	4:50
12	Scene 2: "Splendid, Señor, splendid"	2:52
13	Scene 3: "Will You Cherish Me In My Old Age?"	4:08
14	Scene 4: "Give It Back!"	2:37
15	Scene 5: "If You Have A Daughter"	1:16
16	Scene 6: "It Looks Like The First Act"	1:52
	Act 2 - Tableau 3
17	Scene 1: "Buy Some Fish"	2:11
18	Scene 2: "Rosina...Rosina..."	2:49
19	Scene 3: "Ferdinand Alone Is Dearer"	3:10
20	Scene 4: "If I Had Known"	1:36
21	Scene 5: "My Beard?"	6:05
22	Scene 6: "There Is No Greater Happiness"	2:27
	Act 2 - Tableau 4
23	Scene 1: "Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes!"	3:37
24	Scene 2: "My Pretty...My Pretty..."	4:21
25	Scene 3: "When The Cheerful Fop Starts Hanging Around"	5:02
26	Scene 4: "Well?"	2:32
	Act 3 - Tableau 5
27	Scene 1: "Ah, Time Does Not Want To Move On At All"	2:51
28	Scene 2: "Come In, Come In, Antonio"	2:10
29	Scene 3: "Should We Take A Sly Look"	2:59
30	Scene 4: "It's Bad To Peep"	3:23
31	Scene 5: "How My Soul Is Beaming!"	3:52
	Act 3 - Tableau 6
32	Scene 1: "You Are Not Playing In Tune"	2:59
33	Scene 2: "My Respectful Greetings To The Señor"	2:42
34	Scene 3: "Please, Let Us Continue"	3:57
35	Scene 4: "Lopez!"	2:12
	Act 3 - Tableau 7
36	Scene 1: "Here I Am, A Nun"	6:54
37	Scene 2: "They Have Gone Gladdened"	4:20
38	Scene 3: "It Must Be Here..."	3:31
	Act 4 - Tableau 8
39	Scene 1: "The Bottle Is The Sun Of Our Lives"	2:18
40	Scene 2: "To The Pretty Nun"	2:10
41	Scene 3: "They're Bring More Wine!"	5:53
42	Scene 4: "Take Care, Antonio!"	2:45
43	Scene 5: "Straight Down To Business Now"	2:07
	Act 4 - Tableau 9
44	Scene 1: "I Can't Understand It"	1:33
45	Scene 2: "Aha, Here's Mendoza At Last"	2:20
46	Scene 3: "What Is This?"	2:37
47	Scene 4: "Son! At Last"	2:54
48	Scene 5: "Don Jerome, Don Jerome!"	7:50