opera notebook
some operas I have seen on videoPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Iolanta (1892)
libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky
Teatro Real, Madrid, 2012
- Conductor: Teodor Currentzis
- Director: Peter Sellars
- Set Designer: George Todica
- Iolanta: Ekaterina Scherbachenko
- Vaudemont: Pavel Černoch
Stark lighting design, sexualized staging, minimalist sets, and the interpolation of the Cherubic Hymn from Tchaikovsky's Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom make the fairy tale of Iolanta into quite a fraught proposition.