Der feurige Engel - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Der feurige Engel
Opera in five acts (1927; premiere 1954)
Music and libretto by Sergei Prokofiev
In Russian with German surtitles
New production of the Theater an der Wien
Premiere: Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Performances: 19/21/24/26/28 March 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Introductory matinee: Sunday, March 14, 2021 | 11.00 a.m.
Ruprecht has just returned from a trip to America - it's the year 1534 - and is spending the night in a ramshackle hostel. Suddenly he hears fearful calls from an apparently threatened woman from the next room. He breaks open the connecting door to help her and finds an overwhelmingly beautiful woman - albeit alone. She begs him for protection and amazes 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 pleading prayer, he assumed the shape of Count Heinrich, with whom she then lived for a while in sexual fellowship. Then Heinrich fled. Since then Renata has been looking for Heinrich-Madiel, always chased by demons. At first Ruprecht wants to take advantage of Renata's condition, then something about the strange woman touches him, and he becomes her companion and protector. He falls in love with her more and more, but she uses him and denies him her love and her body, yet he stays. In Cologne they really meet Count Heinrich, Renata gets Ruprecht to challenge him to a duel, and Ruprecht is critically injured by Heinrich. Renata takes care of him now, but when he is healthy she goes to a monastery. Discouraged, Ruprecht joins two travelers who promise to cheer him up. Their names are Faust and Mephistopheles. Strange things have been going on in the monastery where Renata is a novice since her arrival. The abbess therefore calls an inquisitor, whose exorcism however gets completely out of control. Unmoved by all the devil's bans, Faust and Mephistopheles watch the action with amusement, while holding on to the desperate Ruprecht so that he cannot intervene and spoil the fun. When the nuns in the Inquisitor believe they themselves recognize the devil and attack him, he arrests Renata, whom he believes to be the source of the evil, and puts her at the stake.
Subject to changes.
Music and libretto by Sergei Prokofiev
In Russian with German surtitles
New production of the Theater an der Wien
Premiere: Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Performances: 19/21/24/26/28 March 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Introductory matinee: Sunday, March 14, 2021 | 11.00 a.m.
Ruprecht has just returned from a trip to America - it's the year 1534 - and is spending the night in a ramshackle hostel. Suddenly he hears fearful calls from an apparently threatened woman from the next room. He breaks open the connecting door to help her and finds an overwhelmingly beautiful woman - albeit alone. She begs him for protection and amazes 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 pleading prayer, he assumed the shape of Count Heinrich, with whom she then lived for a while in sexual fellowship. Then Heinrich fled. Since then Renata has been looking for Heinrich-Madiel, always chased by demons. At first Ruprecht wants to take advantage of Renata's condition, then something about the strange woman touches him, and he becomes her companion and protector. He falls in love with her more and more, but she uses him and denies him her love and her body, yet he stays. In Cologne they really meet Count Heinrich, Renata gets Ruprecht to challenge him to a duel, and Ruprecht is critically injured by Heinrich. Renata takes care of him now, but when he is healthy she goes to a monastery. Discouraged, Ruprecht joins two travelers who promise to cheer him up. Their names are Faust and Mephistopheles. Strange things have been going on in the monastery where Renata is a novice since her arrival. The abbess therefore calls an inquisitor, whose exorcism however gets completely out of control. Unmoved by all the devil's bans, Faust and Mephistopheles watch the action with amusement, while holding on to the desperate Ruprecht so that he cannot intervene and spoil the fun. When the nuns in the Inquisitor believe they themselves recognize the devil and attack him, he arrests Renata, whom he believes to be the source of the evil, and puts her at the stake.
Subject to changes.
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