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  • OPR volume 32 issue 2-3 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Cambridge Opera Journal / Volume 32 / Issue 2-3 / July 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 September 2021, pp. f1-f2
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  • Heaven, Hell or Somewhere in Between: Sergei Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel and the Search for Spiritual Truth

  • Margaret Frainier
  • Journal:
    Cambridge Opera Journal / Volume 32 / Issue 2-3 / July 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 August 2021, pp. 226-252

  • Sergei Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel (Ognennyi angel) has remained comparatively little studied among his operatic works, interpreted primarily as a parody of Russian symbolist beliefs and practice. In the last few years, however, new biographical information has emerged about the period during which Prokofiev wrote The Fiery Angel that points to ways of reconsidering the opera's compositional history and legacy. Furthermore, recent scholarship on the application of narrative theory to opera studies presents new methods for examining how opera might incorporate a narrative point of view. Combining these lines of inquiry, this article scrutinises Prokofiev's two complete versions of Angel (1923 and 1927) in the context of the composer's conversion to Christian Science during the intervening period. It argues that the 1927 version privileges its central character's point of view, as he experiences a process of spiritual awakening similar to the composer's own.

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