MetOpera: Iolanta / Bluebeard's Castle

Opera double bill - Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and Béla Bartók's Bluebeard’s Castle - performed as part of the Metropolitan Opera's 2014-2015 season captured live in HD on the New York stage. Conducted by Maestro Valery Gergiev.

"On the heels of her triumphant Met performances as Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, soprano Anna Netrebko takes on another Tchaikovsky heroine in the first opera of this intriguing double bill, consisting of an enchanting fairy tale (Iolanta) followed by an erotic psychological thriller (Bluebeard’s Castle). Netrebko stars as the beautiful blind girl who experiences love for the first time in Iolanta, while Nadja Michael is the unwitting victim of the diabolical Bluebeard, played by Mikhail Petrenko. Both operas are directed by Mariusz Trelinski, who was inspired by classic noir films of the 1940s." (MetOpera)

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