DVD + Blu-Ray:
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta and the Nutcracker

0000: This imaginative ‘music theatre for the whole family’ enchants above all the numerous children and young people. In short: it’s a family-show to the core!

When Tchaikovsky premiered his famous ballet The Nutcracker in Saint Petersburg 130 years ago, it was presented as a double bill, as standard at the time, together with the opera Iolanta. The Volksoper Wien, being part home to the famous Wiener Staatsballett, under the helm of the new artistic director Lotte de Beer and music director Omer Meir Wellber presents both works again in one evening, but not as two separate pieces, but by fusing the two works into one. It’s a “successful debut that is also musically convincing” and the “two pieces intertwine like gears”. Jorine van Beek’s costumes makes it a “feast for the eyes” (Die Presse). “The Volksoper Orchestra once again demonstrated its power of performance” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). In short: it’s a family-show to the core!

Original title Tchaikovsky: Iolanta and the Nutcracker
Recording location Volksoper Wien, 2022
Duration 97 mins
Production Company ORF in co-production with UNITEL in cooperation with Volksoper Wien and Wiener Staatsballett
Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Orchestra / Band Orchester der Volksoper Wien
Conductor Omer Meir Wellber
Stage Director Lotte de Beer
Choreography by Andrey Kaydanovskiy
Dance Company Wiener Staatsballett
Soloist Mila Schmidt, Felipe Vieira, Olesya Golovneva, Stefan Cerny, Georgy Vasiliev, Andrei Bondarenko