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Design gallery: The Tsarina's Slippers, Royal Opera
Design gallery: The Tsarina's Slippers, Royal Opera
Close-up on Mikhail Mokrov's sets and Tatiana Noginova's costumes for the Tchaikovsky fairytale
A new production by The Royal Opera of Tchaikovsky's The Tsarina's Slippers opens on Friday at Covent Garden, directed by Francesca Zambello, designed by Mikhail Mokrov and Tatiana Noginova, and with an all-Russian cast of principals conducted by Alexandr Polianichko.
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Sets by Mikhail Mokrov
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Costume designs by Tatiana Noginova
Characters: Vakula, a blacksmith (2 costumes); his mother Solokha (2 costumes); his girlfriend Oksana; the Devils, the Tsar, Mayor, Odarka, Panas, Chub
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Ballet dancers, Cossacks, children's ballet, Tsar's court, villagers
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Production photographs by Bill Cooper/The Royal Opera House
- Vsevolod Grivnov as Vakula, a blacksmith
- Olga Guryakova as Oxana, his girlfriend
- Larissa Diadkova as Solokha, Vakula's mother
- Maxim Mikhailov as the Devil
- The Royal Ballet's Mara Galeazzi and Gary Avis lead the ballets
- Sergei Leiferkus as His Highness
- Cossack dancers
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- The Tsarina's Slippers opens on Friday at The Royal Opera House, with performances until 8 December. Book online here.
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