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{{Short description|1921 opera by Sergei Prokofiev}}
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| name              = L'amour des trois oranges
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| librettist        = Prokofiev
| librettist        = Prokofiev
| language          = French
| language          = French
| based_on          = {{based on|''[[L'amore delle tre melarance]]''|[[Carlo Gozzi]]}}
| based_on          = {{based on|{{lang|it|[[L'amore delle tre melarance]]}}|[[Carlo Gozzi]]}}
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| premiere_location = [[Auditorium Theatre]], Chicago
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'''''{{Lang|fr|L'amour des trois oranges}}''''', [[Opus number|Op.]] 33, is a 1921 [[Satire|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'' ({{langx|ru|Любовь к трём апельсинам|links=no}} ''Lyubov k tryom apyelsinam'') by [[Carlo Gozzi]], and conducted the premiere, which took place at the [[Auditorium Theatre]] in [[Chicago]] on 30 December 1921.
'''''{{Lang|fr|L'amour des trois oranges}}''''', [[Opus number|Op.]] 33, is a 1921 [[satirical]] French-language [[opera]] by [[Sergei Prokofiev]]. He wrote his own libretto, basing it on the Italian play {{lang|it|[[L'amore delle tre melarance]]}}, or ''The Love for Three Oranges'' ({{langx|ru|Любовь к трём апельсинам|links=no}} ''Lyubov k tryom apyelsinam'') by [[Carlo Gozzi]], and conducted the premiere, which took place at the [[Auditorium Theatre]] in [[Chicago]] on 30 December 1921.


== History ==
== History ==
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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 [[Symphony No. 1 (Prokofiev)|First Symphony]], Prokofiev was approached by the director of the [[Chicago Opera Association]], [[Cleofonte Campanini]], to write an opera.  
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 [[Symphony No. 1 (Prokofiev)|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|Giambattista Basile's]] [[The Love for Three Oranges (fairy tale)|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 Janacópulos|Vera Janacopoulos]], he settled on French.{{sfn|Pisani|1997|loc=p. 490 and n. 13}}
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 [[The Love for Three Oranges (fairy tale)|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 Janacópulos|Vera Janacopoulos]], he settled on French.{{sfn|Pisani|1997|loc=p. 490 and n. 13}}


=== Performance ===
=== Performance ===
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Five years after the premiere, in 1926, the French opera received its first production in Russian, in [[Petrograd]].
Five years after the premiere, in 1926, the French opera received its first production in Russian, in [[Petrograd]].


''L'amour des trois oranges'' was not performed again in the United States until 1949 when the [[New York City Opera]] resurrected it. As staged by [[Vladimir Rosing]] and conducted by [[Laszlo Halasz (conductor)|Laszlo Halasz]], the production was successful. ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine featured it in a color photo spread. The New York City Opera mounted a touring company of the production, and the production was brought back in New York for five additional seasons (1949-51, 1954-55, 1963).<ref>[http://www.oldlife.net/issue.php?date=10/02/1950 "''The Love for Three Oranges'': A Slaphappy Fairy Tale Makes a Smash-Hit Opera"], ''Life'', 2 October 1950.</ref>
''L'amour des trois oranges'' was not performed again in the United States until 1949 when the [[New York City Opera]] resurrected it. As staged by [[Vladimir Rosing]] and conducted by [[Laszlo Halasz (conductor)|Laszlo Halasz]], the production was successful. ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine featured it in a colour photo spread. The New York City Opera mounted a touring company of the production, and the production was brought back in New York for five additional seasons (1949-51, 1954-55, 1963).<ref>[http://www.oldlife.net/issue.php?date=10/02/1950 "''The Love for Three Oranges'': A Slaphappy Fairy Tale Makes a Smash-Hit Opera"], ''Life'', 2 October 1950.</ref>


Memorably a 1988 production by [[Richard Jones (director)|Richard Jones]] for [[Opera North]],<ref name="Leeks 2003 58">{{cite book|editor-last=Leeks|editor-first=Stuart|year=2003|title=Opera North @ 25|publisher=Opera North|page=58|location=Leeds}}</ref><ref name="guardian.co.uk">[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/feb/04/gambler-royal-opera-house-prokofiev "''The Gambler'' grabs you and doesn't let go"] by [[Tom Service]], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 5 February 2010, and correction from 3 March 2010</ref> later seen at [[English National Opera]], New York City Opera and elsewhere, used "[[Scratch and sniff|scratch'n'sniff]]" cards handed out to the audience, suggesting various scents matching events in the staging (gunshots, Truffaldino's "wind", the aroma of oranges).
Memorably a 1988 production by [[Richard Jones (director)|Richard Jones]] for [[Opera North]],<ref name="Leeks 2003 58">{{cite book|editor-last=Leeks|editor-first=Stuart|year=2003|title=Opera North @ 25|publisher=Opera North|page=58|location=Leeds}}</ref><ref name="guardian.co.uk">[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/feb/04/gambler-royal-opera-house-prokofiev "''The Gambler'' grabs you and doesn't let go"] by [[Tom Service]], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 5 February 2010, and correction from 3 March 2010</ref> later seen at [[English National Opera]], New York City Opera and elsewhere, used "[[scratch'n'sniff]]" cards handed out to the audience, suggesting various scents matching events in the staging (gunshots, Truffaldino's "wind", the aroma of oranges).


The work has entered the standard repertory, with regular stagings on both sides of the Atlantic and at least a dozen complete recordings, six of them videos, to its credit.
The work has entered the standard repertory, with regular stagings on both sides of the Atlantic and at least a dozen complete recordings, six of them videos, to its credit.


=== Popular culture ===
=== Popular culture ===
Its most familiar section is the March, used by [[CBS]] in the radio-drama series ''[[The FBI in Peace and War]]'' from 1944 to 1958,{{sfn|Pisani|1997|p=496}}<ref name="Spr-FBI-March">{{cite web|last=Bergman|first=Elizabeth|title=The FBI March by Sergei Prokofiev|url=http://www.sprkfv.net/journal/three18/fbimarch.html|publisher=Sprkfv.net|access-date=26 February 2012}}</ref> as an "FBI" [[Leitmotif|leitmotiv]] in films such as [[The Brink's Job]] (1978). It is also quoted by Prokofiev himself in the ballet ''[[Cinderella (Prokofiev)|Cinderella]]''. It also has been used for the TM Books & Video's warning screen. It is also the title of the thirty-third issue of [[The Maxx]], a comic loosely based upon theories of [[Personality psychology]] and [[theory of mind]].
Its most familiar section is the March, used by [[CBS]] in the radio-drama series ''[[The FBI in Peace and War]]'' from 1944 to 1958,{{sfn|Pisani|1997|p=496}}<ref name="Spr-FBI-March">{{cite web|last=Bergman|first=Elizabeth|title=The FBI March by Sergei Prokofiev|url=http://www.sprkfv.net/journal/three18/fbimarch.html|publisher=Sprkfv.net|access-date=26 February 2012}}</ref> as an "FBI" [[leitmotiv]] in films such as [[The Brink's Job]] (1978). It is also quoted by Prokofiev himself in the ballet ''[[Cinderella (Prokofiev)|Cinderella]]''. It also has been used for the TM Books & Video's warning screen. It is also the title of the thirty-third issue of [[The Maxx]], a comic loosely based upon theories of [[Personality psychology]] and [[theory of mind]].
 
In Book II, Chapter 14 of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''Tender is the Night'', Dick Diver wakes from a dream of a military parade marching to the 2nd movement of ''The Love for Three Oranges''.


==Roles==
==Roles==
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*1982: [[Glyndebourne Festival]] Opera,<ref>''The Love for Three Oranges: the Glyndebourne version'', Frank Corsaro, Maurice Sendak. Bodley Head, 1984, 119 pages</ref> conductor [[Bernard Haitink]]. Staging design by [[Maurice Sendak]]. [[Warner Classics|Warner]] box.
*1982: [[Glyndebourne Festival]] Opera,<ref>''The Love for Three Oranges: the Glyndebourne version'', Frank Corsaro, Maurice Sendak. Bodley Head, 1984, 119 pages</ref> conductor [[Bernard Haitink]]. Staging design by [[Maurice Sendak]]. [[Warner Classics|Warner]] box.
*1989: [[Gabriel Bacquier]], Jean-Luc Viala, Georges Gautier, [[Catherine Dubosc]], [[Jules Bastin]], Chorus & Orchestra of the [[Lyon Opera]], conductor [[Kent Nagano]], stage director Louis Erlo.
*1989: [[Gabriel Bacquier]], Jean-Luc Viala, Georges Gautier, [[Catherine Dubosc]], [[Jules Bastin]], Chorus & Orchestra of the [[Lyon Opera]], conductor [[Kent Nagano]], stage director Louis Erlo.
*2005: Alain Vernhes, Martial Defontaine, [[François Le Roux]], Serghei Khomov, [[Sandrine Piau]], Anna Shafajinskaja, [[Willard White]]. [[Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra]] & Chorus of [[Dutch National Opera|De Nederlandse Opera]], [[Stéphane Denève]], [[Laurent Pelly]] (stage director). Recorded live at [[Stopera|Het Muziektheater]], Amsterdam. [[Naxos (company)|Opus Arte]].
*2005: Alain Vernhes, Martial Defontaine, [[François Le Roux]], Serghei Khomov, [[Sandrine Piau]], Anna Shafajinskaja, [[Willard White]]. [[Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra]] & Chorus of [[De Nederlandse Opera]], [[Stéphane Denève]], [[Laurent Pelly]] (stage director). Recorded live at [[Het Muziektheater]], Amsterdam. [[Opus Arte]].
*2005: {{ill|Charles Workman (tenor)|de|Charles Workman (Sänger)|lt=Charles Workman}} (Le Prince), [[José van Dam]] (Tchélio), Philippe Rouillon (Le roi de Trèfle), [[Barry Banks (tenor)|Barry Banks]] (Trouffaldino), [[Béatrice Uria-Monzon]] (Fata Morgana) & [[David Bizic]] (Le Héraut). [[Paris Opera|Opéra National de Paris]], [[Sylvain Cambreling]] (conductor), Gilbert Deflo (stage director), Set and costumes by William Orlandi.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.amazon.fr/Prokofiev-LAmour-trois-Oranges-national/dp/B000VKW6PQ | title=Prokofiev - l'Amour des trois Oranges (Opera national de Paris 2006): Amazon.fr: Sylvain Cambreling, Charles Workman, Jose van Dam, Philippe Rouillon, Barry Banks, Beatrice Uria-Monzon, Serge Prokofiev, Gilbert Deflo, Sylvain Cambreling, Charles Workman: DVD et Blu-ray }}</ref>
*2005: {{ill|Charles Workman (tenor)|de|Charles Workman (Sänger)|lt=Charles Workman}} (Le Prince), [[José van Dam]] (Tchélio), Philippe Rouillon (Le roi de Trèfle), [[Barry Banks (tenor)|Barry Banks]] (Trouffaldino), [[Béatrice Uria-Monzon]] (Fata Morgana) & [[David Bizic]] (Le Héraut). [[Opéra National de Paris]], [[Sylvain Cambreling]] (conductor), Gilbert Deflo (stage director), Set and costumes by William Orlandi.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.amazon.fr/Prokofiev-LAmour-trois-Oranges-national/dp/B000VKW6PQ | title=Prokofiev - l'Amour des trois Oranges (Opera national de Paris 2006): Amazon.fr: Sylvain Cambreling, Charles Workman, Jose van Dam, Philippe Rouillon, Barry Banks, Beatrice Uria-Monzon, Serge Prokofiev, Gilbert Deflo, Sylvain Cambreling, Charles Workman: DVD et Blu-ray }}</ref>


'''In Russian'''
'''In Russian'''
*1970: {{ill|The Love for Three Oranges (film)|ru|Любовь к трём апельсинам (фильм)|lt=''The Love for Three Oranges''}}<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q16514579|title=The Love for Three Oranges|description=(1970)}}</ref>
*1970: {{ill|The Love for Three Oranges (film)|ru|Любовь к трём апельсинам (фильм)|lt=''The Love for Three Oranges''}}<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q16514579|title=The Love for Three Oranges|description=(1970)}}</ref>
*2004: Alexey Tanovitsky (King of Clubs), Andrey Ilyushnikov (the Prince), Nadezhda Serdjuk (Princess Clarissa), [[Edward Tsanga|Eduard Tsanga]] (Leandro), Kirill Dusheschkin (Trouffaldino), Vladislas Sulimsky (Pantalone), Pavel Schmulevich (the magician, Chelio), Ekaterina Shimanovitch (Fata Morgana), Sophie Tellier (Linetta), Natalia Yevstafieva (Nicoletta), Julia Smorodina (Ninetta), Yuriy Vorobiev (the Cook), Alexander Gerasimov (Farfarello), Wojciek Ziarnik (Herald), Juan Noval (Master of Ceremonies), [[Michel Fau]] (The Diva). [[EuropaChorAkademie]] & [[Mahler Chamber Orchestra]], conducted [[Tugan Sokhiev]]. Stage Direction, Philippe Calvario. Coproduction [[Festival d'Aix-en-Provence]] 2004, [[Teatro Real de Madrid]]. DVD [[Tugan Sokhiev]] Bel Air Classics. Russian subtitles.
*2004: Alexey Tanovitsky (King of Clubs), Andrey Ilyushnikov (the Prince), Nadezhda Serdjuk (Princess Clarissa), [[Eduard Tsanga]] (Leandro), Kirill Dusheschkin (Trouffaldino), Vladislas Sulimsky (Pantalone), Pavel Schmulevich (the magician, Chelio), Ekaterina Shimanovitch (Fata Morgana), Sophie Tellier (Linetta), Natalia Yevstafieva (Nicoletta), Julia Smorodina (Ninetta), Yuriy Vorobiev (the Cook), Alexander Gerasimov (Farfarello), Wojciek Ziarnik (Herald), Juan Noval (Master of Ceremonies), [[Michel Fau]] (The Diva). [[EuropaChorAkademie]] & [[Mahler Chamber Orchestra]], conducted [[Tugan Sokhiev]]. Stage Direction, Philippe Calvario. Coproduction [[Festival d'Aix-en-Provence]] 2004, [[Teatro Real de Madrid]]. DVD [[Tugan Sokhiev]] Bel Air Classics. Russian subtitles.


'''In English'''
'''In English'''
*1989: [[Opera North]],<ref name="Leeks 2003 58"/><ref name="guardian.co.uk"/> [[Mark Glanville]] (King of Clubs), Peter Jeffes (the Prince), [[Patricia Payne (mezzo-soprano)|Patricia Payne]] (Princess Clarissa), [[Andrew Shore]] (Leander), Paul Harrhy (Trouffaldino), [[Alan Oke]] (Pantalone), Roger Bryson (the magician, Chelio), Maria Moll (Fata Morgana), Lesley Roberts (Linetta), Victoria Sharp (Nicoletta), Juliet Booth (Ninetta), [[Richard Angas]] (the Cook), Mark Lufton (Farfarello), Stephen Dowson (Herald), Terry Whan (Acrobat), Maria Jagusz (Smeraldina). Chorus [[Opera North]] & [[Orchestra of Opera North|English Northern Philharmonia]], conducted [[David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)|David Lloyd-Jones]]. Stage Direction, [[Richard Jones (director)|Richard Jones]].
*1989: [[Opera North]],<ref name="Leeks 2003 58"/><ref name="guardian.co.uk"/> [[Mark Glanville]] (King of Clubs), Peter Jeffes (the Prince), [[Patricia Payne (mezzo-soprano)|Patricia Payne]] (Princess Clarissa), [[Andrew Shore]] (Leander), Paul Harrhy (Trouffaldino), [[Alan Oke]] (Pantalone), Roger Bryson (the magician, Chelio), Maria Moll (Fata Morgana), Lesley Roberts (Linetta), Victoria Sharp (Nicoletta), Juliet Booth (Ninetta), [[Richard Angas]] (the Cook), Mark Lufton (Farfarello), Stephen Dowson (Herald), Terry Whan (Acrobat), Maria Jagusz (Smeraldina). Chorus [[Opera North]] & [[English Northern Philharmonia]], conducted [[David Lloyd-Jones]]. Stage Direction, [[Richard Jones (director)|Richard Jones]].


=== Audio ===
=== Audio ===
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=== Recordings of the Suite ===
=== Recordings of the Suite ===
* [[National Symphony Orchestra]] cond. [[Leonard Slatkin]], [[BMG Classic|BMG Classics]], 1998
* [[National Symphony Orchestra]] cond. [[Leonard Slatkin]], [[BMG Classic|BMG Classics]], 1998
* [[Orchestre National de France|ORTF National Orchestra]] cond. [[Lorin Maazel]], [[Sony Classical]], 1991
* [[ORTF National Orchestra]] cond. [[Lorin Maazel]], [[Sony Classical]], 1991
* [[Royal Scottish National Orchestra]] cond. [[Neeme Järvi]], [[Chandos Records|Chandos]], 1989
* [[Royal Scottish National Orchestra]] cond. [[Neeme Järvi]], [[Chandos Records|Chandos]], 1989
* [[Dallas Symphony Orchestra]] cond. [[Eduardo Mata]], [[Red Seal Digital]], 1985
* [[Dallas Symphony Orchestra]] cond. [[Eduardo Mata]], [[Red Seal Digital]], 1985
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[[Category:Satirical operas]]
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "other uses". Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox opera Script error: No such module "Lang"., Op. 33, is a 1921 satirical French-language opera by Sergei Prokofiev. He wrote his own libretto, basing it on the Italian play Script error: No such module "Lang"., or The Love for Three Oranges (Template:Langx Lyubov k tryom apyelsinam) by Carlo Gozzi, and conducted the premiere, which took place at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on 30 December 1921.

History

Composition

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 French.Template:Sfn

Performance

Prokofiev conducted the premiere, which took place at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on 30 December 1921. Initial criticism was harsh. "It left many of our best people dazed and wondering"; "Russian jazz with Bolshevik trimmings"; and "The work is intended, one learns, to poke fun. As far as I am able to discern, it pokes fun chiefly at those who paid money for it".Template:Sfn However, one newspaperman and author gave it an enthusiastic review. Ben Hecht wrote: "There is nothing difficult about this music, unless you are unfortunate enough to be a music critic. But to the untutored ear there is a charming capriciousness about the sounds from the orchestra".[1][2]

Five years after the premiere, in 1926, the French opera received its first production in Russian, in Petrograd.

L'amour des trois oranges was not performed again in the United States until 1949 when the New York City Opera resurrected it. As staged by Vladimir Rosing and conducted by Laszlo Halasz, the production was successful. Life magazine featured it in a colour photo spread. The New York City Opera mounted a touring company of the production, and the production was brought back in New York for five additional seasons (1949-51, 1954-55, 1963).[3]

Memorably a 1988 production by Richard Jones for Opera North,[4][5] later seen at English National Opera, New York City Opera and elsewhere, used "scratch'n'sniff" cards handed out to the audience, suggesting various scents matching events in the staging (gunshots, Truffaldino's "wind", the aroma of oranges).

The work has entered the standard repertory, with regular stagings on both sides of the Atlantic and at least a dozen complete recordings, six of them videos, to its credit.

Popular culture

Its most familiar section is the March, used by CBS in the radio-drama series The FBI in Peace and War from 1944 to 1958,Template:Sfn[6] as an "FBI" leitmotiv in films such as The Brink's Job (1978). It is also quoted by Prokofiev himself in the ballet Cinderella. It also has been used for the TM Books & Video's warning screen. It is also the title of the thirty-third issue of The Maxx, a comic loosely based upon theories of Personality psychology and theory of mind.

In Book II, Chapter 14 of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, Dick Diver wakes from a dream of a military parade marching to the 2nd movement of The Love for Three Oranges.

Roles

Template:Sronly
Role
<templatestyles src="Nobold/styles.css"/>(name / equivalent in English) 		Voice type Premiere cast, 30 December 1921
conductor: Sergei Prokofiev
Le roi de trèfle / The King of Clubs — ruler of an imaginary kingdom bass James Francis
Le prince / The Prince — his son tenor José Mojica
Princesse Clarice / Princess Clarice — the king's niece contralto Irene Pavloska
Léandre / Leandro — prime minister baritone William Beck
Trouffaldino / Truffaldino — court jester tenor Octave Dua
Pantalon / Pantalone — the king's advisor baritone Désiré Defrère
Tchélio / Chelio — magician and the king's (and prince's) protector bass Hector Dufranne
Fata Morgana — witch and the prime minister's protectress dramatic soprano Nina Koshetz
Linette / Linetta — princess in Orange No. 1 contralto Philine Falco
Nicolette / Nicoletta — princess in Orange No. 2 mezzo-soprano Frances Paperte
Ninette / Ninetta — princess in Orange No. 3 soprano Jeanne Dusseau
Sméraldine / Smeraldina — Fata Morgana's black slave mezzo-soprano Jeanne Schneider
Farfarello — a demon baritone (or bass) James Wolf
La cuisinière / Woman-Cook — Créonte in the form of a giant custodian of the oranges bass Constantin Nikolay
Le maître de cérémonies / The Master of Ceremonies baritone (or tenor) Lodovico Oliviero
L'héraut / The Herald bass Jerome Uhl
Advocates of Tragedy, Comedy, Lyric Drama and Farce; Ten "Ridicules" (Cranks); demons, courtiers, monsters, drunkards, gluttons, guards, servants and soldiers

Synopsis

Prologue

Advocates of Tragedy, Comedy, Lyric Drama, and Farce argue for their favourite form before the curtain goes up for a play. The Ridicules (Cranks) round them up and tell them they are to witness "The Love for Three Oranges".

Act 1

The King of Clubs and his adviser Pantalone lament the sickness of the Prince, brought on by an indulgence in tragic poetry. Doctors inform the King that his son's hypochondria can only be cured with laughter, so Pantalone summons the jester Truffaldino to arrange a grand entertainment, together with the (secretly inimical) prime minister, Leandro.

The magician Tchelio, who supports the King, and the witch Fata Morgana, who supports Leandro and Clarice (niece of the King, lover of Leandro), play cards to see who will be successful. Tchelio loses three times in succession to Fata Morgana, who brandishes the King of Spades, alias of Leandro.

Leandro and Clarice plot to kill the Prince so that Clarice can succeed to the throne. The supporters of Tragedy are delighted at this turn of events. The servant Smeraldina reveals that she is also in the service of Fata Morgana, who will support Leandro.

Act 2

All efforts to make the Prince laugh fail, despite the urgings of the supporters of Comedy, until Fata Morgana is knocked over by Truffaldino and falls down, revealing her underclothes—the Prince laughs, as do all the others except for Leandro and Clarice. Fata Morgana curses him: henceforth, he will be obsessed by a "love for three oranges". At once, the Prince and Truffaldino march off to seek them.

Act 3

Tchelio tells the Prince and Truffaldino where the three oranges are, but warns them that they must have water available when the oranges are opened. He also gives Truffaldino a magic ribbon with which to seduce the giant (female) Cook (a bass voice) who guards the oranges in the palace of the witch Creonte.

They are blown to the palace with the aid of winds created by the demon Farfarello, who has been summoned by Tchelio. Using the ribbon to distract the Cook, they grab the oranges and carry them into the surrounding desert.

While the Prince sleeps, Truffaldino opens two of the oranges. Fairy princesses emerge but quickly die of thirst. The Ridicules give the Prince water to save the third princess, Ninette. The Prince and Ninette fall in love. Several soldiers conveniently appear, and the Prince orders them to bury the two dead princesses. He leaves to seek clothing for Ninette so he can take her home to marry her, but, while he is gone, Fata Morgana transforms Ninette into a giant rat and substitutes Smeraldina in disguise.

Act 4

Everyone returns to the King's palace, where the Prince is now forced to prepare to marry Smeraldina. Tchelio and Fata Morgana meet, each accusing the other of cheating, but the Ridicules intervene and spirit the witch away, leaving the field clear for Tchelio. While Leandro and the Master of Ceremonies see that the palace is prepared for the wedding, Tchelio restores Ninette to her natural form. The plotters are sentenced to die but Fata Morgana helps them escape through a trapdoor, and the opera ends with everyone praising the Prince and his bride.

Arrangements

Suite from The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33bis

Prokofiev compiled a 15–20 minute orchestral suite from the opera for concert use. The suite is in 6 movements:

  1. The Ridicules
  2. The Magician Tchelio and Fata Morgana Play Cards (Infernal Scene)
  3. March
  4. Scherzo
  5. The Prince and the Princess
  6. Flight

March and Scherzo from The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33ter

This is a transcription for piano solo prepared by the composer.

Recordings

Videos

In French

In Russian

  • 1970: Template:Ill[9]
  • 2004: Alexey Tanovitsky (King of Clubs), Andrey Ilyushnikov (the Prince), Nadezhda Serdjuk (Princess Clarissa), Eduard Tsanga (Leandro), Kirill Dusheschkin (Trouffaldino), Vladislas Sulimsky (Pantalone), Pavel Schmulevich (the magician, Chelio), Ekaterina Shimanovitch (Fata Morgana), Sophie Tellier (Linetta), Natalia Yevstafieva (Nicoletta), Julia Smorodina (Ninetta), Yuriy Vorobiev (the Cook), Alexander Gerasimov (Farfarello), Wojciek Ziarnik (Herald), Juan Noval (Master of Ceremonies), Michel Fau (The Diva). EuropaChorAkademie & Mahler Chamber Orchestra, conducted Tugan Sokhiev. Stage Direction, Philippe Calvario. Coproduction Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2004, Teatro Real de Madrid. DVD Tugan Sokhiev Bel Air Classics. Russian subtitles.

In English

Audio

Year Cast: (King of Clubs,
The Prince,
The Princess,
Leandro,
Truffaldino,
Pantalone,
Tchelio,
Fata Morgana 		Conductor,
opera house and orchestra 		Label[10]
1961 Viktor Ribinsky,
Vladimir Markhov,
Lyutsia Rashkovets,
Boris Dobrin,
Yuri Yelnikov,
Ivan Budrin,
Gennady Troitsky,
Nina Polyakova 		Dzemal Dalgat,
All-Union Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra
(Performed in Russian) 		CD: Melodiya
Cat: 100194
1989 Gabriel Bacquier,
Jean-Luc Viala,
Hélène Perraguin,
Vincent Le Texier,
Georges Gautier,
Didier Henry,
Gregory Reinhart,
Michèle Lagrange 		Kent Nagano,
Lyons Opera Orchestra and Chorus
(Live performance in French) 		CD: EMI
Cat: 358694-2; Virgin Classics,
Cat: 58694
DVD: Arthaus Musik
Cat: 100404
1997/98 Mikail Kit,
Yevgeny Akimov,
Larissa Diadkova,
Alexander Morozov,
Konstantin Pluzhnikov,
Vassily Gerelo,
Vladimir Vaneyev,
Larissa Shevchenko 		Valery Gergiev,
Kirov Theater Orchestra and Chorus
(Performed in Russian) 		CD: Philips,
Cat: 462 913-2
2005 Bruce Martin,
John MacMaster,
Deborah Humble,
Teddy Tahu Rhodes,
William Ferguson,
Warwick Fyfe,
Jud Arthur,
Elizabeth Whitehouse 		Richard Hickox,
Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra and Opera Australia Chorus
(Performed in English) 		CD: Chandos Records
Cat: CHAN 10347

Recordings of the Suite

References

Notes

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  1. ↑ Ben Hecht, A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago, Bibliobazaar, 2006 (1922), p. 93.
  2. ↑ "Ben Hecht and Prokofiev's Love of Three Oranges", introduction by Florice Whyte Kovan and Hecht's "Fantastic Lollypops, by Ben Hecht".
  3. ↑ "The Love for Three Oranges: A Slaphappy Fairy Tale Makes a Smash-Hit Opera", Life, 2 October 1950.
  4. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  5. ↑ a b "The Gambler grabs you and doesn't let go" by Tom Service, The Guardian, 5 February 2010, and correction from 3 March 2010
  6. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  7. ↑ The Love for Three Oranges: the Glyndebourne version, Frank Corsaro, Maurice Sendak. Bodley Head, 1984, 119 pages
  8. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  10. ↑ Recordings on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk

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Sources

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Further reading

  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  • Dassia N. Posner and Kevin Bartig, Three Loves for Three Oranges: Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev, Indiana University Press, 2021.

External links

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