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Der feurige Engel
Opera in five acts (1927, UA 1954)
Music and libretto by Sergei Prokofiev
In Russian with German surtitles
New production of the Theater an der Wien
Ruprecht has just returned from an American trip to Europe - we write the year 1534 - and spent the night in a run-down hostel. Suddenly he hears fearful calls from an apparently threatened woman from the next room. He breaks the connecting door to help her and finds an overwhelmingly beautiful woman - albeit alone. She implores him for protection and baffles him with her story: her name is Renata, and she has been intimately connected with a fiery angel named Madiel since childhood, but the relationship changed as she grew up. The angel insisted on a pure, spiritual devotion, she longed for physical union. At her prayerful prayer, he assumed the form of a Count Heinrich, with whom she then lived in sexual community for a while. Then Henry escaped. Since then, Renata is looking for Heinrich-Madiel, always hunted by demons. First, Ruprecht wants to take advantage of Renata's condition, then something touches him on the strange woman, and he becomes her companion and protector. More and more he falls in love with her, but she uses him and refuses her love and her body, yet he remains. In Cologne they really meet Count Heinrich, Renata gets Ruprecht to challenge him to a duel, while Ruprecht is seriously injured by Heinrich. Although Renata lovingly cared for him now, but when he is well, she goes to a monastery. Ruprecht joins the discouraged two travelers who promise to cheer him up. They are called Faust and Mephistopheles. In the monastery where Renata lives as a novice strange things are going on since their arrival. The abbess therefore calls an inquisitor, whose exorcism, however, completely out of control. Unmoved by all the devilish taunts, Faust and Mephistopheles amused the action, holding tight the desperate Ruprecht so he can not intervene and spoil the fun. Finally, when the nuns in the inquisitor believe they recognize the devil and attack him, he arrests Renata, whom he considers the source of the evil, and hands them over to the stake.
Subject to change.
Music and libretto by Sergei Prokofiev
In Russian with German surtitles
New production of the Theater an der Wien
Ruprecht has just returned from an American trip to Europe - we write the year 1534 - and spent the night in a run-down hostel. Suddenly he hears fearful calls from an apparently threatened woman from the next room. He breaks the connecting door to help her and finds an overwhelmingly beautiful woman - albeit alone. She implores him for protection and baffles him with her story: her name is Renata, and she has been intimately connected with a fiery angel named Madiel since childhood, but the relationship changed as she grew up. The angel insisted on a pure, spiritual devotion, she longed for physical union. At her prayerful prayer, he assumed the form of a Count Heinrich, with whom she then lived in sexual community for a while. Then Henry escaped. Since then, Renata is looking for Heinrich-Madiel, always hunted by demons. First, Ruprecht wants to take advantage of Renata's condition, then something touches him on the strange woman, and he becomes her companion and protector. More and more he falls in love with her, but she uses him and refuses her love and her body, yet he remains. In Cologne they really meet Count Heinrich, Renata gets Ruprecht to challenge him to a duel, while Ruprecht is seriously injured by Heinrich. Although Renata lovingly cared for him now, but when he is well, she goes to a monastery. Ruprecht joins the discouraged two travelers who promise to cheer him up. They are called Faust and Mephistopheles. In the monastery where Renata lives as a novice strange things are going on since their arrival. The abbess therefore calls an inquisitor, whose exorcism, however, completely out of control. Unmoved by all the devilish taunts, Faust and Mephistopheles amused the action, holding tight the desperate Ruprecht so he can not intervene and spoil the fun. Finally, when the nuns in the inquisitor believe they recognize the devil and attack him, he arrests Renata, whom he considers the source of the evil, and hands them over to the stake.
Subject to change.
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