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Afternoon Concert: Thursday Opera Matinee: Tchaikovsky - Iolanta

Tchaikovsky - Iolanta

24/05/2012

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Katie Derham presents Tchaikovsky's one-act opera Iolanta, plus Rachmaninov Symphony No 1.

Katie Derham presents Tchaikovsky's one-act opera Iolanta, in a performance given at the Vienna State Opera. Plus the BBC Philharmonic in Rachmaninov's Symphony No 1.

Thursday Opera Matinee: Tchaikovsky's Iolanta 
In the mountains of Southern France in the fifteenth century, ignorance is bliss for Princess Iolanta: she knows neither that she's blind, nor that she is a princess, because no one's told her. But all that is about to change when her betrothed decides to marry another woman, an alternative suitor conveniently arrives and a Moorish doctor comes along with a blindness cure. Katie Derham presents Tchaikovsky's one act opera, written to be performed with 'The Nutcracker' and, like its companion-piece ballet, a satisfying work in its own right.

Iolanta ..... Olga Mykytenko (soprano), 
Rene ..... Dmitry Belosselsky (bass),
Robert ..... Dalibor Jenis (baritone),
Count Vaudemont ..... Saimir Pirgu (tenor), 
Ibn-Hakia ..... Elchin Azizov (baritone), 
Almeric ..... Ladislav Elgr (tenor), 
Bertrand ..... Vladimir Baykov (bass), 
Marta ..... Svetlana Shilova (contralto), 
Brigitta ..... Rinnat Moriah (soprano), 
Laura ..... Victoria Yarovaya (mezzo-soprano), 
Arnold Schoenberg Chorus 
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra 
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

At approx. 3.35pm more from the BBC Philharmonic on tour:

Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 in D minor
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).

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