Opera Cheat Sheet: Iolanta

Butter sculpture of "The Dreaming Iolanthe", depicting the blind Yolande, as portrayed in Henrik Hertz's play King René's Daughter, by Caroline Shawk Brooks, 1876. Public domain. In this OCS, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly, Executive Director of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, give a quick overview of Tchaikovsky’s last opera. Written in 1892, and with a libretto by the composer’s brother Modest, Iolanta is a one-act work about a blind princess who... Read More