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Offer,Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges

It has been noted that with Prokofiev's sole operatic success the original Russian is perhaps less vital than with most of his operas, and in many ways the very best way to experience the work... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 14th Nov 2005
Catalogue No: CHAN10347
Label: Chandos
Length: 99 minutes

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Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges, Prologue

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Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Michael Black, Opera Australia Chorus, Richard Hickox, Tim DuFore

What we want is genuine tragedy! (Herald, Tragedians, Comics, Lyrics, Empty Heads, Eccentrics)

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Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges, Act I Scene 1

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Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Bruce Martin, Michael Black, Opera Australia Chorus, Richard Hickox, William Ferguson, Warwick Fyfe, Teddy Tahu Rhodes

Oh, poor boy! Tell me the worst. What are his chances? (King, Pantaloon, Eccentrics, Doctors)

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Don't worry… don't worry… (Pantaloon, King, Truffaldino)

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Leandro, please lay on a sort of royal variety show (King, Leandro, Pantaloon, Eccentrics)

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Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges, Act I Scene 2

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Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Deborah Humble, Catherine Carby, Jud Arthur, Michael Black, Opera Australia Chorus, Richard Hickox, Teddy Tahu Rhodes

It's Chelio! (Chelio, Fata Margana, Eccentrics, Little Devils)

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The best-laid plans of mice and men can meet frustration (Leandro, Clarissa, Tragedians, Eccentrics)

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Who's that? (Leandro, Smeraldina, Clarissa)

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Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges, Act II Scene 1

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Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, John Mac Master, Michael Black, Opera Australia Chorus, Richard Hickox, William Ferguson

Howzat?! (Truffaldino, Prince, Eccentrics, Comics)

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Here they come… ain't it grand? It's beginning, so hurry, hurry! (Truffaldino, Prince)

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Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges, Act II Scene 2

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Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Bruce Martin, John Mac Master, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Michael Black, Opera Australia Chorus, Richard Hickox, William Ferguson, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Warwick Fyfe

For your delight, I present first, this! (Truffaldino, King, Prince, Courtiers)

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Who are you? What do you want here? (Leandro, Fata Morgana, Truffaldino, Courtiers, King, Prince)

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Who is this woman? (Truffaldino, Fata Morgana, Prince, Eccentrics, King, Courtiers, Little Devils)

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I want an apple, or a banana… perhaps a cherry… (Prince, Pantaloon, Truffaldino, King, Eccentrics, Empty Heads)

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Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges, Act III Scene 1

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Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Jud Arthur, John Mac Master, Richard Alexander, Richard Hickox, William Ferguson

Farfarello! Farfarello! (Chelio, Farfarello)

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Wind has died. We must be in Orange country (Prince, Truffaldino, Chelio)

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Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges, Act III Scene 2

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Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Arend Baumann, John Mac Master, Richard Hickox, William Ferguson

We're here (Prince, Truffaldino)

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Fee-fi-fo-fum! I heard a noise. Where's my ladle? (Cook, Truffaldino, Prince)

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Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges, Act III Scene 3

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Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Ali McGregor, John Mac Master, Bruce Martin, Richard Hickox, Michael Black, Catherine Carby, William Ferguson, Opera Australia Chorus, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Wendy Dawn Thompson, Teddy Tahu Rhodes

We've lost our following wind, no wonder that we're getting nowhere! (Prince, Truffaldino)

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Where did the girl come from? (Truffaldino, Linetta, Nicoletta, Prince)

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We're alone, at last, my marmalade, my dessert, my true love (Prince, Ninetta, Eccentrics, Lyrics)

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Smeraldina… with a needle! Fata Morgana! (Ninetta, Fata Morgana, Prince, King, Smeraldina, Leandro, Eccentrics)

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Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges, Act IV Scene 1

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Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Jud Arthur, Michael Black, Opera Australia Chorus, Richard Hickox

Ah! I'll get you for this, I'll get you for this, see if I don't…! (Chelio, Fata Morgana, Eccentrics)

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Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges, Act IV Scene 2

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Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Bruce Martin, Deborah Humble, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Graeme Macfarlane, John Mac Master, Jud Arthur, Michael Black, Opera Australia Chorus, Richard Hickox, Warwick Fyfe, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, William Ferguson

Are you ready? (Leandro, Master of Ceremonies, King, Chelio, Courtiers)

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Would you be Ninetta? (Prince, King, Truffaldino, Clarissa, Leandro, Pantaloon, Eccentrics, Courtiers)

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Arrest them! (Master of Ceremonies, King, Pantaloon, Truffaldino, Fata Morgana, Eccentrics, Courtiers)

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Recorded live at the Sydney Opera House in February 2005 (premiere recording in English by Tom Stoppard)

Artists

Bruce Martin (bass) King of Clubs, John Mac Master (tenor) Prince, Deborah Humble (contralto) Clarissa, Teddy Tahu Rhodes (baritone) Leandro, William Ferguson (tenor) Truffaldino, Warwick Fyfe (baritone) Pantaloon, Jud Arthur (bass) Chelio, Elizabeth Whitehouse (soprano) Fata Morgana, Wendy Dawn Thompson (contralto) Linetta, Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo-soprano) Nicoletta, Ali McGregor (soprano) Ninetta, Arend Bauman (bass) Cook, Richard Alexander (bass) Farfarello, Catherine Carby (mezzo-soprano) Smeraldina, Graeme Macfarlane (tenor) Master of Ceremonies & Tim DuFore (bass) Herald

Opera Australia Chorus & Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Richard Hickox

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2010

It has been noted that with Prokofiev's sole operatic success the original Russian is perhaps less vital than with most of his operas, and in many ways the very best way to experience the work is in the vernacular. Well, now here's the chance for English speakers to prove that pudding.
Prokofiev's sense of humour (or rather Carlo Gozzi's, filtered through adapter-producer Vsevolod Meyerhold and colleagues to Prokofiev, who then wrote his own libretto) has kept something of its edge, thanks to its mixture of mild cruelty and pantomime sauciness – it is the sight of Fata Morgana accidentally showing her knickers that cures the Prince of his melancholic hypochondria and draws upon him the curse of loving three oranges. Tom Stoppard's translation comes nicely off the page and seems relatively congenial to the voices.
Hickox and his Australians have a ball throughout, and the recording somehow captures all the sparkiness of live performance without the usual excessive dryness of an opera-house acoustic.
Crucially, the chorus and orchestra sound as fully engaged as the soloists themselves. All we lack is the additional fun of the curtain calls, which – authenticity or otherwise – extend an all but irresistible invitation to reuse the famous March. Without that the ending inevitably feels a bit of a let-down.
In a sense the serious collector has to have Gergiev for the original Russian text (Phlips, not currently listed) but also Nagano's (in French), because Prokofiev was involved in the French adaptation of the text which featured in the first performances. But for the most instant enjoyment, the new issue will surely score highest for native English speakers. The Chandos documentation is fine, though why it has bothered to print the French text alongside the English is a mystery.

Offer,Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges

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