DVD Video, Prokofiev (composer)
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New. Fairytale Ballets - Cinderella; Coppélia; the Sleeping Beauty; Swan Lake
Marianela Nuñez, Vadim Muntagirov, Fumi Kaneko, Kristen McNally, Gary Avis, Bennet Gartside, Luca Acri, Claire Clavert, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Koen Kessels, Barry Wordsworth
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Special offer. Prokofiev: The Gambler, Op. 24
Misha Didyk (Alexei), Kristine Opolais (Polina), Vladimir Ognovenko (General), Stefania Toczyska (Babulenka), Stephan Rügamer (The Marquis), Sylvia de la Muela (Blanche), Viktor Rud (Mr Astley)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) & Dmitri Tcherniakov (stage director)
Barenboim's crystal-clear pacing of the score is hard-hitting rather than quicksilvery, but the payoff in the last Act is terrific, and the blue-lit look of it all - Tcherniakov designed it,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - DVD Performance
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, DVD of the Month
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Opera, July 2010, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Prokofiev: The Gambler
Asmik Grigorian (Polina), Sean Panikkar (Alexey), Violeta Urmana (Babulenka), Juan Francisco Gatell (The Marquis)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Timur Zangiev, Peter Sellars
This production, sympathetically recorded, and filmed with flair, is a complete triumph and it makes us realise what a masterpiece The Gambler actually is. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2025, DVD/Bluray of the Month
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Prokofiev: Cinderella
Marianela Nunez, Vadim Muntagirov, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Koen Kessels
Kessels conducts this score with an uncanny sense for insightful phrasing: in particular, his tempo choices and accenting are always right on target, and he manages to draw splendid playing... —
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The Highest Level: Prokofiev 3 and Bartok 2
The Making of an Extraordinary Recording
Lang Lang (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Lang Lang has the necessary power and athleticism to bring tremendous energy and drive to [Prokofiev's] more motoric writing...[he] sails through the passagework [of the Bartok] with exemplary... —
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Special offer. Prokofiev: War and Peace
Olga Kulchynska (Natasha), Andrei Zhilikhovsky (Andrei), Arsen Soghomonyan (Pierre), Violeta Urmana (Marya Dmitriyevna Akhrosimova), Olga Guryakova (Peronskaya), Bekhzod Davronov (Anatole), Christina Bock (Marya Bolkonskaya)
Bayerische Staatsoper, Vladimir Jurowski, Dmitri Tcherniakov
The video is definitely worth seeing. If you have a good knowledge of the opera already from a more standard version, you’ll appreciate the in-jokes, such as the decision to take Prokofiev’s... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner - Video (Opera)
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Claudio Abbado conducts Prokofiev, Berg & Tchaikovsky
Lucerne Festival at Easter 2010
Anna Prohaska (soprano)
Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Claudio Abbado
It's amazing the way Abbado brings the melodic writing to the fore in the very different worlds of the Prokofiev and the Berg Lulu Suite, crowned by Anna Prohaska's meaningful characterisation...As... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2011, DVD Choice
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Special offer. Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel
Leigh Melrose (Ruprecht), Ewa Vesin (Renata), Anna Victorova (The Landlady), Mairam Sokolova (Fortune-teller/Mother Superior), Sergey Radchenko (Agrippa of Nettesheim), Andrii Ganchuk (Johann Faust/The Servant), Maxim Paster (Mephistopheles), Goran Juric (The Inquisitor), Domingo Pellicola (Jacob...
If anyone might have rebuilt the opera’s reputation it is the director Emma Dante…The cast, mostly Russian in the middle ranks, are good too. The Polish soprano Ewa Vesin tackles the hugely... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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