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Prokofiev: The Love for the Three Oranges (L'AMOUR DES TROIS ORANGES) / Opera in a prologue and four acts (sung in russian) / Libretto Sergei Prokofiev / MAHLER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA / Tugan Sokhiev, conductor / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 112 Minutes
UPC: 3760115300248
- Aspect Ratio : 1.77:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : Yes
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 4.25 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 Ounces
- Director : Don Kent
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen, Classical
- Run time : 1 hour and 52 minutes
- Release date : January 8, 2008
- Actors : Nadezhda Serdjuk, Eduard Tsanga, Kirill Dushechkin, Alexey Tanovitsky, Andrey Ilyushnikov
- Subtitles: : French, English, German, Spanish
- Producers : François Duplat
- Language : Russian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
- Studio : Bel Air Classiques
- Number of discs : 1
L'amour des trois oranges, Op. 33, is a satirical French-language opera by Sergei Prokofiev. He wrote his own libretto, basing it on the Italian play L'amore delle tre melarance, or The Love for Three Oranges (Russian: Любовь к трём апельсинам), by Carlo Gozzi, and conducted the premiere, which took place at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on 30 December 1921.
The opera resulted from a commission during Prokofiev's first visit to the United States in 1918. After well-received concerts of his works in Chicago, including his First Symphony, Prokofiev was approached by the director of the Chicago Opera Association, Cleofonte Campanini, to write an opera.
Conveniently the composer had already drafted a libretto during his voyage to America, one based on Gozzi's Italian play in mock commedia dell'arte style (itself an adaptation of Giambattista Basile's fairy tale). He had done so using Vsevolod Meyerhold's Russian translation of the Gozzi and had injected a dose of Surrealism into the commedia dell'arte mix. But Russian would have been unacceptable to an American audience, and Prokofiev's English was scanty, so, with possible help from soprano Vera Janacopoulos, he settled on Frenchю
