Iolanta, Op. 69 (reduced orchestration by R. Whilds)

Composer: Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich

Librettist/Text Author: Tchaikovsky, Modest

Conductor: Ioffe, Alevtina

Orchestra: Bavarian State Opera Orchestra

Chorus: Bavarian State Opera Children's Choir

Chorus Master: Fagone, Stellario

Almerik: Singh, Caspar

Bertrand: Davydov, Oleg

Brigitta: Mejias, Anais

Ibn-Hakia: Yilmaz, Ogulcan

Iolanta: Mesak, Mirjam

King Rene: Suihkonen, Markus

Laura: Sokolik, Yulia

Marta: Mesak, Mirjam

Robert: Prygl, Boris

The Patriarch: Bollmann, Nora

Vaudemont: Long, Long

Set Designer: Herold, Falko

Costume Designer: Herold, Falko

Lighting Designer: Bauer, Michael

Stage Director: Ranisch, Axel

Television Director: Leconte, Corentin

Mavra (arr. P. Phillips)

Composer: Stravinsky, Igor

Librettist/Text Author: Kochno, Boris

Conductor: Ioffe, Alevtina

Orchestra: Bavarian State Opera Orchestra

Chorus: Bavarian State Opera Children's Choir

Chorus Master: Fagone, Stellario

Her Mother: Beinart, Noa

Parasha: El-Khashem, Anna

The Neighbor: Sokolik, Yulia

Vassili, a hussar: De Tommaso, Freddie

Set Designer: Herold, Falko

Costume Designer: Herold, Falko

Lighting Designer: Bauer, Michael

Stage Director: Ranisch, Axel

Television Director: Leconte, Corentin

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Date of Production: 07-2019

Venue: Cuvillies Theatre, Munich

Playing Time: 02:10:58

Catalogue Number: BAC2368

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In Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky's last opera Iolanta, a blind princess is searching for the source of her sadness and finds love. In Igor Stravinsky's neoclassical one-act buffa Mavra, an ingenious young woman has a risky idea and smuggles her lover, disguised as a cook, into her mother's house.

Stage director Axel Ranisch interweaves those two works, resulting in a coming-a-of-age fairy tale on family, love, knowledge and self-determination: Mavra and Iolanta are becoming Mavra/Iolanta.