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Opera Sergei Prokofiev "Betrothal in a Monastery" (Opera two acts)
St. Petersburg Chamber Opera

Running time: 3 hours 15 minutes


Schedule for Sergei Prokofiev "Betrothal in a Monastery" (Opera two acts) 2022

Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Set Designer: Vyacheslav Okunev
Stage Director: Yuri Alexandrov
Choreography: Nadezhda Kalinina

Betrothal in a Monastery is an opera by Sergei Prokofiev, his sixth with an opus number. The libretto, in Russian, was by the composer and Mira Mendelson (his companion in later life), after Richard Brinsley Sheridan's ballad opera libretto for Thomas Linley the younger'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 first performance did not occur until 3 November 1946 at the Kirov Theatre with Boris Khaikin conducting.

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.








  


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SYNOPSIS

ACT I

In 18th-century Seville Don Jerome arranges to marry his daughter Louisa to Mendoza, an ugly but very rich old fish merchant who has not seen the girl but is enthusiastic. He hears the penniless Antonio serenading Louisa and vows that the wedding must take place soon.

ACT II

Louiseґs duenna hatches a plan that will allow Louisa to marry Antonio and herself to snare Mendoza and his money: Don Jerome must believe that the duenna is acting as a go-between for the lovers; he will then dismiss her but Louisa will put on the duennaґs clothes, escape and elope with Antonio. The duenna, disguised as Louisa, will marry Mendoza instead. Having escaped, Louisa comes across her friend Clara who, feigning distress at her loverґs over-ardent behavior (her lover is Louisaґs brother Ferdinand), has decided to take refuge in a monastery. Disguised, this time as Clara, Louisa enlists Mendozaґs help in finding Antonio – the merchant is only too pleased to divert his rivalґs attentions away from Louisa (as he thinks). At Don Jeromeґs house Mendoza meets "Louisa" (the duenna); he is won over by her flattery and the couple plan to elope.

ACT III

Antonio meets the real Louisa and Mendoza, still ignorant of her identity, smiles on young love. Don Jerome, interrupted in his amateur music making, unwittingly blesses the separate marriages of Louisa and Mendoza. At the concert Clara pines for Ferdinand.

ACT IV

A visit from Mendoza and Antonio interrupts the alcoholic revelry of the monks at the monastery. Ferdinand also arrives and, believing that Antonio is about to marry Clara, stars a fight. Confusions are resolved and the monks bless all three marriages. At the wedding ball planned for Louisa, Don Jerome learns of the turn of events and is eventually reconciled to them; his daughter has married a pauper, but Ferdinand has married an heiress.





Schedule for Sergei Prokofiev "Betrothal in a Monastery" (Opera two acts) 2022


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