Details

This new production evokes a dark and threatening world with hard hitting contemporary resonance. When Tsar Ivan the Terrible selects Marfa Sobakina as his bride, romantic and political jealousy and scheming brings about death and disaster for her and many others. The music is intensely dramatic to match the story of Ivan the Terrible and the madness and sinister death of his third wife, Marfa.

Cast/Performers

Marina Poplavskaya (Marfa), Johan Reuter (Grigory Gryaznoy), Ekaterina Gubanova (Lyubasha), Dmytro Popov (Ivan Sergeyevich Likov), Paata Burchuladze (Sobakin), Alexander Vinogradov (Malyuta-Skuratov), Vasily Gorshkov (Bomelius), Elizabeth Woollett (Domna Ivanovna Saburova), Jurgita Adamonyte (Dunyasha), Anne-Marie Owen (Petrovna)

Creatives/Company

Music: Rimsky-Korsakov
Producer: Royal Opera House
Conductor: Mark Elder
Director: Paul Curran
Design: Kevin Knight
Lighting: David Martin Jacques