SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953): Betrothal in a Monastery.

Description: For hardcore Russian opera collectors, we offer this 1963 recording of Prokofiev's setting of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's "The Duenna". Melodiya provides a synopsis and ten sentences of notes but helpfull tell us that it won the "Prix André Messager de l'Academia du Disque Lyrique France" in 1967... 2 CDs. No libretto. Valentina Kayevchenko (soprano), Nina Issakova (mezzo), Anatoly Mishchevsky, Nikolai Korshunov (tenors), Yan Kratov (baritone), Chorus and Orchestra of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre; Kemal Abdullayev.