The Nightingale / Iolanta at The National Theatre

Dates: (9/9/2016 - 3/16/2017 )

Theatre:

The National Theatre

Národní 2
Praha 1,Praha 1 110 00

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Tickets: CZK 100.00 - CZK 1290.00

Running Time: Approximate running time, including intermission: 2 hours, 50 minutes, one 20-minute intermission.

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Igor Stravinsky’s first and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s final opera hail from two totally different musical worlds – Iolanta is still borne in the spirit of Romantic refinement, known from the composer’s operas, ballets and symphonies, whereas Le rossignol, written 20 years later, blends the magic of Impressionism and the tumultuous Impressionist idiom. Yet the two works, so distant from one another at first glance, have much in common – not only their being based on fairy tales, but also the theme and, if you will, message, which is inherent to the genre.
The omnipotent Chinese Emperor lives amidst excessive luxury, which binds, suffocates and poisons him by its affectation, and has no inkling as to the beauty of Nature and its creatures. His eyes are only opened by a song of an ordinary nightingale.
Princess Iolanta has been blind since birth and her father meticulously sees to her never learning of her affliction. She lives in a beautiful, enclosed garden and no one is ever allowed to mention light, colours or human vision in her presence. One day, the garden is entered by the knight Vaudémont, who falls in love with Iolanta and arouses in the blind Princess the desire to see.
Although works by two great masters of global music, neither of the fairy-tale operas has to date been staged at the National Theatre, with Stravinsky’s Le rossignol only having been presented twice in a concert performance, in 2010. Our new production is musically prepared by the renowned British conductor Jan Latham-Koenig, who worked in Prague some five years ago. On the other hand, the gifted Czech stage director Dominik Beneš makes his debut at the National Theatre.

Cast and Creative team for The Nightingale / Iolanta at The National Theatre

Musical preparation: Jan Latham-Koenig
Conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig, Zbyn?k Müller
Stage director: Dominik Beneš
Sets: Martin ?erný
Costumes: Zuzana P?idalová
Motion cooperation: Dana Pala
Light-design: Martin Špetlík
Chorus master: Martin Buchta
Dramaturgy: Ond?ej Hu?ín
The Nightingale
Libretto: Igor Stravinsky, St?pan Mitusov
Iolanta
Libretto: Modest Ilji? ?ajkovskij

Nightingale

Milena Arsovska
Olga Jelínková

Fisherman

Jaroslav B?ezina
Josef Moravec

Cook

Marta Reichelová
Yukiko Šrejmová Kinjo

Emperor

Roman Janál
Aleš Jenis

Chamberlain

Miloš Horák
Pavel Švingr

Bonz

Jan Š?áva
Lud?k Vele

Death

Stanislava Jirk?
Václava Krej?í Housková

First Japanese emissary

Michal Bragagnolo
Václav Lemberk

Second Japanese emissary

David Nykl
Luboš Skala

Third Japanese emissary

Václav Barth
Ji?í Hruška

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