Details
Based on a Christmas tale by Gogol, which mixes realistic village comedy with fairy-tale fantasy, the plot recounts how Vakula the blacksmith flies on the Devil's back to St Petersburg to find a pair of slippers worn by the Tsarina herself in order to win the hand of his beloved Oxana. New Production
Cast/Performers
Vsevold Grivnov (Vakula),
Larissa Diadkova (Solokha),
Vladimir Matorin (Chub),
Maxim Mikhailov (The Devil),
Olga Guryakova (Oxana),
Viktoria Yastrebova (Oxana),
Vyacheslav Voynarovsky (Schoolmaster),
Sergei Leiferkus (His Highness),
Alexander Vassiliev (Pan Golova),
John Upperton (Panas),
Jeremy White (Master of Ceremonies),
Robert Anthony Gardiner (Attendant),
Changhan Lim (Wood Goblin)
Creatives/Company
Music:
TchaikovskyProducer(s):
Royal Opera,
Royal BalletConductor:
Alexander Polianichko
