Iolanta
Subtitle: + ballet Casse-noisette
By: Tchaikovski. Aleko / Rachmaninov
Contributors: Hertz, Henrik, 1798-1870; Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893; Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943; Chaĭkovskiĭ, Modest, 1850-1916; Chaĭkovskiĭ, Modest, 1850-1916; Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir I. (Vladimir Ivanovich), 1858-1943; Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir I. (Vladimir Ivanovich), 1858-1943
Series: L' avant-scène opéra -- no 290; Avant scène -- no 290.
Publisher: Les Éditions Premières Loges
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Paris
Language: rus
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9782843853258
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; Aleko (Rachmaninoff, Sergei); Shchelkunchik (Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich)
Other titles: Tchaikovski :
Notes: Cover title.

Includes librettos by Modest Tchaïkovski (pages 11-49) based on Kong Renes datter by Henrik Hertz (Iolanta) and by Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantchenko (pages 95-107) based on Les tziganes by Pouchkine (Aleko); French translations of librettos by André Lischke.

Includes videography (pages 66-67).

Includes bibliographical references (page 122).

Includes discographies (pages 62-64, 117-118).

Commentary in French, with librettos in romanized Russian with parallel French translation.
Table of contents: title: Essays: La source danoise de Iolanta / Antoine Guémy; title: Iolanta et la lumière de la vérité / Louis Bilodeau; title: Histoire d'un casse-noisette (extrait) / Alexandre Dumas; title: Marius Petipa et l'âge d'or du Mariinsky / Sylvie Jacq-Mioche; title: Le thème tzigane de Pouchkine à l'opéra / Pascale Melani; title: Verismo ma non troppo / Nicolas Derny.