An extraordinary double programme with two works which “represent an ideal of beauty, poetry and hope”. Iolanta and Perséphone tell stories of transformation; two dramas laden with symbolism which take a path from light to darkness and back again, where there is always a shadow of one’s self behind each person. Peter Sellars tells the story using a single setting with very intense, abstract visual images where everything changes, as in Russian symbolist drama.
Iolanta
Lyrical opera in one act, in Russian language
Music by Piotr Ilich Chaikovski (1840-1893)
Libretto by Modest Chaikovski, based on King René's Daughter by Henrik Hertz
Premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre of Saint Petersburg on December 18, 1892
Perséphone
Melodramma in three parts, in French language
Music by Igor Stravinski (1882-1971)
Poem by André Gide
Premiered at the Paris Opera on April 30, 1934
New production of the Teatro Real, in coproduction with the Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow
Principal Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
Pequeños Cantores of the JORCAM
Artistic team
Conductor | Teodor Currentzis
Stage director | Peter Sellars
Set designer | George Tsypin
Costume designer | Martin Pakledinaz
Co-costume designer | Helene Siebrits
Lighting designer | James F. Ingalls
Chorus master | Andrés Máspero
Choreography in collaboration with the dancers
Cast
Iolanta
King René | Dmitry Ulianov
Robert | Alexej Markov
Vaudémont | Pavel Cernoch
Ibn-Hakia | Willard White
Alméric | Vasily Efimov
Bertrand | Pavel Kudinov
Iolanta | Ekaterina Scherbachenko
Marta | Ekaterina Semenchuk
Brigitta | Irina Churilova
Laura | Letitia Singleton
Perséphone
Eumolpe | Paul Groves
Perséphone | Dominique Blanc
Dancers
- Perséphone | Sam Sathya
- Déméter | Chumvan Sodhachivy
- Pluton | Khon Chansithyka
- Mercure, Démophoon, Triptolème | Nam Narim Amrita Performing Arts, Cambodia
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