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What should be played in the theater? „Comedies!“, demand some, „Tragedies“ want others, and a third group prefers „romantic love“.
The first work by composer Sergei S. Prokofiev in his new home, the USA, brings everything to the stage at once and overwhelms the audience as a circus-like fairy tale full of magical transformations, Commedia dell’arte masquerades, absurd twists, and theatrical coups. Against the backdrop of courtly intrigues and a dispute among higher powers, the story of the deeply melancholic prince is told, whom only a laugh can heal. It is precisely a mishap by the evil sorceress Fata Morgana that brings him to laughter. She then curses him to fall in love with three oranges. The path to them takes the lovesick prince past all sorts of monstrous figures into the desert. By a hair's breadth, what was meant to be a comic spectacle could turn into a tragedy - if the audience did not intervene in Prokofiev's theater on the theater.
Like all fairy tales, DIE LIEBE ZU DREI ORANGEN has a serious background. While the dispute over different theatrical directions is fought out bloodlessly on the opera stage, it increasingly develops into a life-threatening matter in Soviet reality. In 1940, Stalin has the great theater reformer Vsevolod Meyerhold executed. Prokofiev leaves post-revolutionary Russia in 1918 and composes DIE LIEBE ZU DREI ORANGEN, one of the most virtuosic, colorful, and absurd works in music history.
