The Indian Queen opera Marina Vasyusina 1 PA

The Indian Queen (opera) Marina Vasyusina, 1 PA

General information • a largely unfinished semiopera • with music by Henry Purcell • first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London • in 1695

Creation • as a revised version of the 1664 play "The Indian Queen" • in a prologue and five acts • by John Dryden and his brother-in-law Sir Robert Howard Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Sellars' 2013 realization In the twenty-first century : • Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre (Perm) • Teatro Real (Madrid) • English National Opera (London)

Description • performed in English with Russian subtitles • new version by Peter Sellars song texts by John Dryden, Katherine Philips, George Herbert a others Russian version of libretto by Vera Pavlova and Steven Seymo • Running time: 3 hours 15 minutes including 1 interval

The stage directors Musical Director and Conductor Teodor Currentzis Stage Director Peter Sellars Chorus Master Vitaly Polonsky Assistant Conductor Maxim Yemelianychev Visual Artist Gronk Costume Designer Dunya Ramicova Lighting Designer James F. Ingalls Choreographer Christopher Williams Associate Director Robert Castro Assistant Visual Artist Lawrence Mota Assistant Costume Designer Danielle Domingue Assistant Lighting Designer Seth Reiser Director of the continuo group Andrew Lawrence-King Technical Coordinator Cath Brittan

Roles Hunahpu Vince Yi (USA) Teculihuatzin, Doña Luisa Julia Bullock (USA) Don Pedrarias Dávila Tim Lawrence (Great Britain) Doña Isabel Nadine Koutcher Don Pedro de Alvarado Noah Stewart (USA) Xbalanque Yuriy Minenko (Ukraine) Mayan Shaman Luthando Qave (South Africa) Leonor Maritxell Carrero (USA) Mayan Diety Caitlin Scranton (USA) Mayan Diety Paul Singh (USA) Mayan Dieties Nana Tsuda, Kyle Jerry Tecum Umán Christopher Williams

Lecture • 1 hour before the opera • lecture «Semi-opera «The Indian Queen» by Henry Purcell» • for free • Host - Anna Fefelova, a musicologist • will be hosted in Russian

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