Semyon Kotko, Op. 81

Composer: Prokofiev, Sergey

Librettist/Text Author: Katayev, Valentin

Conductor: Gergiev, Valery

Orchestra: St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra

Chorus: St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre Chorus

Frosya: Solovyova, Varvara

Ivasenko: Karasev, Grigory

Khivrya: Vassilieva, Elena

Klembovsky: Popov, Andrei

Lyubka: Burdenko, Roman

Mikola: Leontieff, Stanislav

Remeniuk: Nikitin, Evgeny

Semyon Kotko: Lutsyuk, Viktor

Semyon's Mother: Sokolova, Lyubov

Sofya: Pavlovskaya, Tatiana

Tkackenko: Bezzubenkov, Genady

Tsaryov: Burdenko, Roman

Set Designer: Pastukh, Semyon

Costume Designer: Solovieva, Galina

Lighting Designer: Filshtinsky, Gleb

Stage Director: Alexandrov, Yuri

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Venue: Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia

Playing Time: 02:28:01

Catalogue Number: MAR0592

UPC: 822231859222

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Marking the 125th Anniversary of his birth, Prokofiev's Semyon Kotko is given an outstanding performance here by a fine cast, conducted by Valery Gergiev, who is widely regarded as one of the Prokofiev's greatest interpreters.

Set during 1918, in a Post-Bolshevik-Revolution climate, Semyon Kotko is a story of love, war and resistance although lesser-known than Prokofiev's other operas, such as War and Peace and Betrothal in a Monastery, Semyon Kotko is nevertheless a raw, thrilling, and utterly engrossing work.