Two Tchaikovsky masterpieces, one night, zero intermissions—opera and ballet collide in Parisian splendor.
To bring together again, for the first time since their premiere on a December evening in Moscow, Tchaikovsky’s opera Iolanta and ballet The Nutcracker, was the audacious challenge that Russian stage director Dmitri Tcherniakov accepted for the Palais Garnier in Paris in March 2016 : a revolutionary production, which was to become one of the key events of the Paris Opera season.
Direction
Tcherniakov unifies two works through shared dream logic.
Production
Single set transforms from medieval castle to snow-dusted childhood.
Acting
Yoncheva's blind princess finds light in every fragile note.
Director
Dmitri Tcherniakov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tchaikovsky himself premiered these works on the same 1892 bill, but they've been separated for 126 years—this reunion was historically obsessive.
Tcherniakov cast the same child supernumeraries across both works, so Iolanta's attendants become Marie's party guests—continuity or creepy?
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