Oper

Piotr I. Tschaikowski

Iolanta

Lyrische Oper in einem Akt

Text Modest Tschaikowski

Friday 21. March 2025 No intermissions Main Stage

Cast at
21. March 2025

Musikalische Leitung

Tugan Sokhiev

Inszenierung

Evgeny Titov

Bühne

Rufus Didwiszus

Kostüme

Annemarie Woods

Licht

Martin Gebhardt

5 more dates

Iolanta

Cast at Monday 24. March 2025

Musikalische Leitung

Tugan Sokhiev

Inszenierung

Evgeny Titov

Bühne

Rufus Didwiszus

Kostüme

Annemarie Woods

Licht

Martin Gebhardt
Area 1 295 €
Area 1

295 €

Area 2 249 €
Area 2

249 €

Area 3 200 €
Area 3

200 €

Area 4 149 €
Area 4

149 €

Area 5 104 €
Area 5

104 €

Area 6 81 €
Area 6

81 €

Area 7 51 €
Area 7

51 €

Area 8 34 €
Area 8

34 €

Area 9 18 €
Area 9

18 €

Standing room
Standing room

Iolanta

Cast at Thursday 27. March 2025

Musikalische Leitung

Tugan Sokhiev

Inszenierung

Evgeny Titov

Bühne

Rufus Didwiszus

Kostüme

Annemarie Woods

Licht

Martin Gebhardt
Area 1 242 €
Area 1

242 €

Area 2 198 €
Area 2

198 €

Area 3 165 €
Area 3

165 €

Area 4 113 €
Area 4

113 €

Area 5 89 €
Area 5

89 €

Area 6 65 €
Area 6

65 €

Area 7 42 €
Area 7

42 €

Area 8 29 €
Area 8

29 €

Area 9 17 €
Area 9

17 €

Standing room
Standing room

Included in: Subscription 18
Subscription 18

Season 2024/2025

Choose a day of the week and your favorite seats and enjoy five performances in one season.

The following performances are included in this subscription:

17. October 2024: MACBETH
14. November 2024: MANON
12. December 2024: PALESTRINA
27. March 2025: IOLANTA
26. June 2025: BALLET: DORNRÖSCHEN

Iolanta

Cast at Monday 31. March 2025

Musikalische Leitung

Tugan Sokhiev

Inszenierung

Evgeny Titov

Bühne

Rufus Didwiszus

Kostüme

Annemarie Woods

Licht

Martin Gebhardt
Area 1 242 €
Area 1

242 €

Area 2 198 €
Area 2

198 €

Area 3 165 €
Area 3

165 €

Area 4 113 €
Area 4

113 €

Area 5 89 €
Area 5

89 €

Area 6 65 €
Area 6

65 €

Area 7 42 €
Area 7

42 €

Area 8 29 €
Area 8

29 €

Area 9 17 €
Area 9

17 €

Standing room
Standing room

Included in: Subscription 14
Subscription 14

Season 2024/2025

Choose a day of the week and your favorite seats and enjoy five performances in one season.

The following performances are included in this subscription:

16. September 2024: BALLET: SCHWANENSEE
21. October 2024: MACBETH
31. March 2025: IOLANTA
28. April 2025: DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
26. May 2025: NORMA

Iolanta

Cast at Friday 4. April 2025

Musikalische Leitung

Tugan Sokhiev

Inszenierung

Evgeny Titov

Bühne

Rufus Didwiszus

Kostüme

Annemarie Woods

Licht

Martin Gebhardt
Area 1 242 €
Area 1

242 €

Area 2 198 €
Area 2

198 €

Area 3 165 €
Area 3

165 €

Area 4 113 €
Area 4

113 €

Area 5 89 €
Area 5

89 €

Area 6 65 €
Area 6

65 €

Area 7 42 €
Area 7

42 €

Area 8 29 €
Area 8

29 €

Area 9 17 €
Area 9

17 €

Standing room
Standing room

Included in: Subscription 6
Subscription 6

Season 2024/2025

Choose a day of the week and your favorite seats and enjoy five performances in one season.

The following performances are included in this subscription:
 

22. November 2024: IL RITORNO D’ULISSE IN PATRIA
10. January 2025: TURANDOT
21. Febuary 2025: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
07. March 2025: BALLET: DIE KAMELIENDAME
04. April 2025: IOLANTA

Iolanta

Cast at Sunday 6. April 2025

Musikalische Leitung

Tugan Sokhiev

Inszenierung

Evgeny Titov

Bühne

Rufus Didwiszus

Kostüme

Annemarie Woods

Licht

Martin Gebhardt
Area 1 242 €
Area 1

242 €

Area 2 198 €
Area 2

198 €

Area 3 165 €
Area 3

165 €

Area 4 113 €
Area 4

113 €

Area 5 89 €
Area 5

89 €

Area 6 65 €
Area 6

65 €

Area 7 42 €
Area 7

42 €

Area 8 29 €
Area 8

29 €

Area 9 17 €
Area 9

17 €

Standing room
Standing room

U27   Included in: Cycle »New Productions«
Cycle »New Productions«

Season 2024/2025

The series of premiere productions are undoubtedly among the most sought-after performances for audiences. Attention is focused equally on the scenic and musical reinterpretations of key works of music theater literature.

29. September 2024: DON CARLO
16. October 2024: FIN DE PARTIE (PREMIERE)
9. March 2025: NORMA
6. April 2025. IOLANTA
5. May 2025: DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
1. June 2025: TANNHÄUSER

Short Summary

Iolanta, the daughter of Provençal King René, who has been blind from birth, lives in hiding in the Vosges mountains.

Her father hopes that she will be cured by the famous physician Ibn-Hakia - only when she can see will Iolanta meet her fiancé Robert of Burgundy. But things turn out differently: Robert wants to break off the engagement because he loves another princess. His companion and friend Vaudemont, on the other hand, falls in love with Iolanta at first sight and she returns his love. Love becomes the key to treatment, the cure succeeds and Iolanta learns to see.

Total 90 min

Piotr Tchaikovsky set the antagonism of light and darkness to music in the juxtaposition of "dark" B flat keys - for example in the unusual orchestral introduction scored only for woodwinds and horns - with the triumphant C major finale. The composer uses trenchant harmony and instrumentation to make the gradually questionable natural idyll in Iolanta's rose garden just as atmospherically tangible as Iolanta's driven nature, King René's doubts or Ibn-Hakia's philosophical reflections on the connections between psyche and body. Finally, Iolanta and Vaudemont's rapturous duet in G major seems to combine romantic love and knowledge (of God) - the solution? Or a new delusion?

The suggestion for this material came from Tchaikovsky himself. In a conversation with the magazine Peterburgskaja Zizn' in November 1892, he explained: "About eight years ago, I received an issue of the [Moscow] magazine Russldj Vestnik [Russian Messenger, note] in which the drama play King Rene's Daughter by the Danish playwright Henrik Hertz was printed in the Russian translation by F. B. Miller. This material enchanted me with its poetry and originality as well as its wealth of lyrical moments. At the time, I promised myself that I would set it to music one day."

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