Lucas Levy and and Audra Casebier rehearse a scene from Tchaikovsky’s ‘Iolanta’.
Westminster Opera Theatre is set to present Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta.
The fully staged production will be performed in Russian with English supertitles. It will include the Westminster Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by musical director William Hobbs, who arranged the opera for chamber orchestra.
Tchaikovsky’s final one-act opera, Iolanta is set to a libretto written by his brother Modest Tchaikovsky. The story centers on Princess Iolanta who has been blind since birth. No one has told her that she is blind or that she is a princess. Her life is about to drastically change when her betrothed decides to marry another woman, an alternate suitor appears and a doctor appears with a cure for blindness.
Iolanta features students studying voice at Westminster Choir College.
Westminster Opera Theatre has been praised for its innovative productions of a wide range of operas. Graduates of the program have gone on to perform in opera houses around the world.
The production is directed by David Paul.
Paul has directed operas and plays at leading professional companies and educational institutions throughout the United States and abroad.
Performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. April 3 through 5 in The Playhouse on campus of Westminster Choir College of Rider University, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton.
Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for students and seniors.
More information is online at rider.edu/arts.
