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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.

Creatives/Company

Music: Tchaikovsky

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Archive listings for The Tsarina's Slippers (2009)

Work type: Opera or Operetta.

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New ProductionProducer Royal Opera. Producer Royal Ballet. Conductor Alexander Polianichko. Performer Vsevold Grivnov (Vakula). Performer Larissa Diadkova (Solokha). Performer Vladimir Matorin (Chub). Performer Maxim Mikhailov (The Devil). Performer Olga Guryakova (Oxana). Performer Viktoria Yastrebova (Oxana). Performer Vyacheslav Voynarovsky (Schoolmaster). Performer Sergei Leiferkus (His Highness). Performer Alexander Vassiliev (Pan Golova). Performer John Upperton (Panas). Performer Jeremy White (Master of Ceremonies). Performer Robert Anthony Gardiner (Attendant). Performer Changhan Lim (Wood Goblin).

20 Nov 09 to 8 Dec 09

Royal Opera House, West End :: V377
listing details L01330479983

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