Betrothal In A Monastery DVD

Louisa - Anna Netrebko
The Duenna - Larissa Diadkova
Don Jerome - Nikolai Gassiev
Don Ferdinand - Aleksander Gergalov
Clara - Marianna Tarassova
Don Antonio - Yevgeny Akimov
Isaac Mandoza - Sergei Aleksashkin
Don Carlos - Yuri Shkliar

Kirov Orchestra, Opera Chorus & Ballet at the Meriinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

Valery Gergiev directs the Kirov Opera in Prokofiev's lyrical comedy "Betrothal in a Monastery". Set in eighteen-century Seville, Prokofiev's adaption of Sheridan's "Duenna" is an opera buffa par excellence, featuring lovers in disguise, a stern father thwarted, a rich suitor dicomfited, venal monks, unreliable servants - and, inevitably, young love triumphant. The cast is led bby Anna Netrebko as the beautiful heroine, supported by Larissa Diadkova as her scheming duenna.