Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

186 mins | Music | Feb. 14, 2015

Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind princess of the title in Tchaikovsky’s lyrical work, opposite Piotr Beczala as Vaudémont, the man who wins her love—and wakes her desire to be able to see. Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko are Judith and Bluebeard in Bartók’s gripping psychological thriller about a woman discovering her new husband’s murderous past.

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

186 mins | Music | Feb. 14, 2015

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind princess of the title in Tchaikovsky’s lyrical work, opposite Piotr Beczala as Vaudémont, the man who wins her love—and wakes her desire to be able to see. Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko are Judith and Bluebeard in Bartók’s gripping psychological thriller about a woman discovering her new husband’s murderous past.
Producers The Metropolitan Opera
Original title Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
Directors Mariusz Treliński, Gary Halvorson
Writers Henrik Hertz, Modest Tchaikovsky, Béla Balázs, Charles Perrault

Cast

Anna Netrebko

as Iolanta

Piotr Beczala

as Vaudémont

Alexey Markov

as Duke Robert

Ilya Bannik

as King René

Nadja Michael

as Judith

Mikhail Petrenko

as Bluebeard

Jan Frycz

as The Voice

Mzia Nioradze

as Marta

Katherine Whyte

as Brigitte

Matt Boehler

as Bertrand

Keith Jameson

as Alméric

Elchin Azizov

as Ibn-Hakia

Joyce DiDonato

as Self - Host