Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / The Nutcracker

About Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / The Nutcracker

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.

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / The Nutcracker is a 2018 music film directed by Andy Sommer and Dmitri Tcherniakov. It runs 188 minutes and was released in October 2018.

Sonya Yoncheva stars as Iolanta, Arnold Rutkowski as Vaudémont, Alexander Tsymbalyuk as King Rene, and Andrei Jilihovschi as Robert. The screenplay is by Dmitri Tcherniakov and Modest Tchaikovsky. In the United States it streams on Carnegie Hall+ Amazon Channel, Carnegie Hall+ Apple TV channel, and Stingray Classica Amazon Channel.