The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh

Directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov and Misjel Vermeiren

With Vladimir Vaneev, Maxim Aksenov, Svetlana Ignatovich, John Daszak and Alexey Markov

Opera lies at the heart of Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful idiom, but performances are few and far between; this realisation of his penultimate and grandest stage work is a very rare and special experience. Kitezh is known as "the Russian Parsifal", which encapsulates its mystical flavour and steady unfolding of a legend of redemption