Opera - Story of a Real Man
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
(1891-1953)
Story of a Real Man, Op. 117
112:48
An opera composed in four acts, rearranged in three acts by M. Mendelson-Prokofieva
Libretto by S.S. Prokofiev and M. Mendelson-Prokofieva. Based on the novel by Boris Polevoy
1.
Epigraph. Song of the collective farmers
1:28
Act I
Tableau 1
2.
1.
Alexei at the crash site
4:19
Tableau 2
Tableau 3
8.
5.
A scene with some children
2:32
9.
6.
Seryenka's story
1:15
10.
7.
The arrival of the collective farmers
2:35
11.
8.
Song of the collective farmers
2:08
Tableau 4
14.
10.
The arrival of Grandmother Vasilissa
2:02
15.
11.
Grandfather's aria
1:31
16.
12.
The approach of the aeroplane
1:07
17.
13.
Andrei's arrival and departure
3:26
1.
14.
Alexei's delirium
5:57
3.
16.
Klavdia's scene with the Commissar
1:04
4.
17.
The Commissar's ballad
3:29
7.
20.
Kukushkin's song
1:11
9.
22.
Alexei's scene with the Commissar
3:20
10.
Reprise of the third entr'acte
2:19
11.
23.
Scene in the solarium
4:57
12.
24.
Alexei's arioso
3:42
13.
25.
The Commissar's death
6:40
14.
26.
My sweet dream
2:05
18.
30.
A scene and a dance
0:59
20.
32.
The departure of the pilots
1:25
22.
34.
At the front
1:50
24.
36.
Alexei's return
4:02
25.
37.
A second letter to Olga
0:45
26.
38.
Olga and Alexei's duet
2:22
27.
39.
Finale (Song of the collective farmers)
1:03
Solo: Yevgeny Kibkalo baritone - Alexei
Solo: Glafira Deomidova soprano - Olga
Solo: Georgi Shulpin tenor - Grandfather Mikhailo
Solo: Vera Smirnova contralto - Vasilissa
Solo: Margarita Miglau mezzo-soprano - Varya
Solo: Georgi Pankov bass - Andrei
Solo: Kiri Leonova mezzo-soprano - Klavdia
Solo: Artur Eizen bass - Commissar
Solo: Mark Reshetin bass - Vasili Vasilevich
Choral: Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre
Conductor: Mark Ermler