Valery Gergiev directs the Kirov Opera in Profokiev's lyrical comedy 'Bethrothal in a Monastery'. Set in eighteenth-century Seville, Profokiev's adaptation of Sheridan's 'Duenna' is an 'opera buffa' par excellence, featuring lovers in disguise, a stern father thwarted, a rich suitor discomfited, venal monks, unreliable servants - and, inevitably, young love triumphant.
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