Rick Mabry wrote: >Richard Todd wrote: > >>By the way, if you want to get your feet wet in Prokofiev operas, I'd >>suggest that the Fiery Angel is his masterpiece in the genre. If you look >>hard enough you can even find a good video production of it on a now >>discontinued Philips VHS. > >Or the Gergiev/Kirov Opera DVD from Arthaus Musik: I did indeed obtain a DVD copy PAL only, regions 2/5. I used a search "thing" to find the best U.K. price and was very happy with both the price and service I got from Benson. This performance under Gergiev with all Russian singers and production by David Freeman was most fascinating and a new experience for me. This leads me to more Prokofiev questions. (1) What was the language in which the commissioned Chicago premiere of _Love for Three Oranges_ was given? I note that there are both a Gergiev Russian CD recording and a Nagano French DVD. I would much prefer Russian but I like DVDs for operas new to me. I also do not in my limited experience respond to Nagano very much. (2) I have revisited a Chant du Monde Prokofiev CD of Alexandre Nevski (Svetlanov with the wonderful mezzo of Larissa Avdeyeva), Zdravitsa (the first "revised" text) under Svetlanov, and Ils sont Sept (everything is labelled in French; this is Seven, they are Seven) under Rojdestvenski. Here is the problem: No texts and the website that has the Nevsky text is not available. For Zdravista I have another recording which uses a new revised text, further politically correct for our times, and this one has a English only text, something that I always consider better than nothing in this day of textless CDs. For Seven, they are Seven, I have no idea what transpires and I find this work very impressive indeed. Recently I picked up Muti's recording of Ivan the Terrible, happily with three wonderful Russian soloists (if with an English chorus) on EMI and again no texts of any sort. So, in conclusion, any advice of _Love for Three Oranges_ and any help on the textlessness would both be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Yoel