Tchaikovsky's The Enchantress: Theater an der Wien

About the Event

Enjoy a thrilling night with Tchaikovsky's seductive opera at the splendid Theater an der Wien.

Tchaikovsky's brother Modest brought Schpaschinsky's new drama to the composer's attention, finding the well‐known writer's love scene particularly suited to opera. Tchaikovsky, fascinated by the two female characters, asked Schpaschinsky to adapt his work in order to form the libretto; the completed stage work now known as The Enchantress was premiered as an opera in four acts at St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater in 1887.

In Russian with German surtitles

Conductor: Mikhail Tatarnikov
Director: Christof Loy
Set & costume design: Christian Schmidt
Light design: Bernd Purkrabek
Choreography: Thomas Wilhelm

Prince Kurliatev: Johannes Martin Kränzle
Princess Yevpraxia: Agnes Zwierko
Prince Nikita, nicknamed "Yuri": Maxim Aksenov
Mamyrov: Vladimir Ognovenko
Nenila: Hanna Schwarz
Nastasia, nicknamed "Kuma": Asmik Grigorian
Foka: Martin Snell
Kitschiga: Nikolay Didenko
Balakin: Erik Årman
Paisi: Andreas Conrad
Lukasch: Vasily Efimov
Kudma: Martin Winkler
Polya: Natalia Kawalek‐Plewniak
Ivan Schuran: Martijn Cornet
Orchestra: ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Chorus: Arnold Schoenberg Choir