Dmitrij Golovnin

Dans l’Allemagne du XVIe  siècle, Renata, une mystérieuse jeune fille, voit le diable lui apparaître sous les traits d’un ange de lumière qui la séduit, et l’entraîne à la pratique de la sorcellerie et des sortilèges. Un spectacle filmé le 5 avril 2022 au Teatro Real de Madrid.

A general and his stepdaughter are both heavily in debt. When the family's tutor, in love with the girl, gets lucky at the gambling table, he tries to rescue her from her desperate situation, but she outright rejects him. Prokofiev's first full-length opera The Gambler, based on Dostoyevsky's partly autobiographical novella ironically written to settle gambling debts, is rarely performed today. This 2020 production brings together director Vasily Barkhatov and conductor Modestas Pitrenas and stars the winner of the 2019 International Opera Award, Asmik Grigorian, in the role of Polina.