Iolanta / Persephone
About the Event
Explore themes of transfiguration and rebirth in two very different works: the opera of Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky's musical melodrama.
Teodor Currentzis and Peter Sellars combine these two works in an exploration of dark and light, of innocence and experience, of love fulfilled and deprived. Ekaterina Scherbachenko sings Tchaikovsky's blind heroine, while celebrated French actress Dominique Blanc embodies Persephone.
Performed in Russian/French, with French surtitles
Cast / Production
Conductor: Teodor Currentzis
Director: Peter Sellars
Designer: George Tsypin
Costumes: Martin Pakledinaz
Lighting: James F. Ingalls
Chorus Master: Bohdan Shved
Children's Chorus Master: Karine Locatelli
Iolanta: Ekaterina Scherbachenko
King René: Dmitry Ulyanov
Vaudémont: Arnold Rutkowski
Robert: Maxim Aniskin
Ibn‐Hakia: Willard White
Alméric: Vasily Efimov
Bertrand: Pavel Kudinov
Marthe: Diana Montague
Brigitte: Maria Bochmanova
Laure: Karina Demurova
Perséphone: Dominique Blanc
Eumolpe: Paul Groves
Orchestra, Chorus & Children's Chorus of Opéra de Lyon
