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  • Iolanta/Perséphone (2012)
  • TV Movie | 187 min | Drama, Music
Iolanta/Perséphone (2012)
TV Movie | 187 min | Drama, Music
Iolanta is one act lyric opera by Tchaikovsky, sung in Russian. Princess Iolanta is born blind; her father, King René, forbids anyone to talk of beauty, light or the natural world hoping that she will not recognize her affliction. For ...See moreIolanta is one act lyric opera by Tchaikovsky, sung in Russian. Princess Iolanta is born blind; her father, King René, forbids anyone to talk of beauty, light or the natural world hoping that she will not recognize her affliction. For Tchaikovsky, a fairytale was not an escape from reality but an opportunity to speak of forbidden reality. His imaginary kingdom is a place of secret remorse and private hurt, redeemed by an African Sufi healer and torrential, relentless, unlikely love. The intimate final opera is a spiritually charged Mozartian journey through darkness into light. Perséphone is a three act melodrama by Stravinsky, sung in French. In André Gide's Homeric poem, Perséphone goes into the underworld of her own free will, moved by compassion for those who must live there, poignantly evoking Christian sacrifice, and poetically suggesting a dawning awareness of the Stalin Terror of mass collectivization. A ritual drawn from the earliest agricultural myths of Western civilization, for Stravinsky it became a second "Rite of the Spring", a dance of renewal to music of unexpected tenderness and grace. This regeneration is felt in the delicate choreography of Cambodian dancers from Amrita Performing Arts. Written by Anonymous See less
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Director
Peter Sellars
Writers
André Gide (poem by) | Henrik Hertz (based on) | Modest Tchaikovsky (libretto)
Producer
Santiago Muñoz
Editor
Toby Trotter
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Updated Jan 24, 2012
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Jan 24, 2012 (Spain)

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