Sergei PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)
Story of a Real Man Op. 117 (1948)
An Opera composed in four acts, re-arranged in three acts by M Mendelson-Prokofieva
Libretto by S.S. Prokofiev and M. Mendelson-Prokofieva
Based on the novel by Boris Polevoy
Alexei, a pilot - Yevgeny Kibkalo (bar)
Olga, his fiance - Glafira Deomidova (sop)
Grandfather, Mikhailo, chairman of a collective farm - Georgi Shulpin (ten)
Vasilissa, grandmother - Vera Smirnova (alto)
Varya, a farm woman - Margarita Miglau (mezzo)
Petrovna, a farm woman - Antonina Ivanova (sop)
Seryenka, a farm boy - Aleksandr Suzanov
Fedya, a farm boy - Vladimir Kurguzov
Andrei, a pilot friend of Alexei's - Georgi Pankov (bass)
First surgeon - Leonid Maslov (ten)
Second surgeon - Nikolai Zaharov (bass)
Alexei's mother - Valentina Petrova (mezzo)
Klavdia, a nurse - Kira Leonova (mezzo)
Commissar - Artur Eizen (bass)
Kukushkin, a pilot - Alexei Maslennikov (ten)
Gvozdev, a tank driver - Vitali Vlasov (ten)
Vasili Vasilevich, the head surgeon - Mark Reshetin (bass)
Zinochka - Maria Zvenzdina (mezzo)
Colonel (Valeri Yaroslavtsev)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre/Mark Ermler
rec. studio, 1961, Moscow, based on 1960 Bolshoi Theatre production