Evento

Independent Opera Company presents: Tsar's Bride!

Friday July 10th at 7:30 and Saturday July 11th at 7:30
St. Andrews Lutheran Church
11555 National Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064
Friday July 17th at 7:30 and Saturday July 18th at 3:00
10931 Santa Monica Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90025

Tsar's Bride has always been a very popular opera in Russia and Ukraine, yet it is rarely performed in the West.
Though Rimsky-Korsakov is familiar to many music lovers for his brilliantly orchestrated concert music including the popular symphonic poem Scheherazade he also wrote a dozen or so operas. Many of them are showy concoctions based on fantastic stories from Russian folklore and legend. But his 1899 opera The Tsar's Bride is something else altogether. It's a complex, psychological drama, steeped in history and driven by the real historic figure: the 16th-century Tsar Ivan IV (better known in the English-speaking world as Ivan the Terrible).

The story of The Tsar's Bride speculates about a single, mysterious event during Ivan's long reign his brief marriage to Marfa Sobakin, his third wife, who died just days after their wedding in 1571. In the opera, Ivan himself never utters a word.Yet the tsar is a looming presence throughout the drama.

Like so many great operas, this one has a dramatic story which includes love, betrayal, murder and above all great music!

IOC production will be set in modern times while maintaining the integrity of the plot.

Galina Barskaya, Artistic Director
Megan Gillespie,Stage Director
Full cast list is coming soon.