Iolanta
P.Tchaikovsky
Opera in 2 acts

Love is a magic!
Libretto - Modest Tchaikovsky after the one act play "King Rene's Daughter" by Henrik Hert
Director-co-producer - Pavel Sorokin
Director - Georgi Ansimov
Designer-Co-Producer - Sergey Barkhin

Love is a powerful emotion that is brilliantly displayed in Iolanta.The main idea of the opera “Iolanta” is the strongest force of love. There is no one bad character in this opera. Tchaikovsky’s last opera Iolanta is one of the most cheerful compositions he had even created. It is full of an optimistic perception of life. The lyric opera “Iolanta” by Tchaikovsky is a story about a blind princess who is cured by love.

The relationships between the two young people are treated with the greatest poetic intensity and linear grace.
The main character of this opera is Iolanta a blind princess. Tchaikovsky created the best poetic and delicate image of a woman.

Running time 2 hours 30 minutes, with an intermission.

Protagonists:
Iolanta, blind daughter of King René - Maria Gavrilova
Ibn-Hakia, Moorish physician - Yuri Vedeneev/Sergey Murzaev
Robert, Duke of Burgundy - Vladimir Redkin/Pavel Chernykh
René, King of Provence - Vladimir Matorin
Count Vaudémont, 'a Burgundian knight - Mikhail Gubsky
Martha, Bertrand's wife, Iolanta's nursemaid - Svetlana Shilova

Brigitta, Iolanta's friend - Oksana Lomova
Alméric, armor-bearer to King René -Vladimir Kudryashov
Bertrand, doorkeeper to the castle - Boris Bezhko
Laura, Iolanta's friend - Elena Novak/Elena Okolysheva

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