Iolanta / Nutcracker Release:Iolanta / Nutcracker and performance artist

and performance artist

the piano-driven "Hold Onto Hope

The album art is painted by Carolynn Haffner

You will pin your ears back to some rockabilly bop

the performers transport us to Ravel's musical universes full of colors

Iolanta / Nutcracker Release:Iolanta / Nutcracker and performance artistBringing together again, for the first time since their premiere, Tchaikovsky's opera Iolanta and ballet The Nutcracker, was the audacious challenge that Russian stage director Dmitri Tcherniakov accepted for the Palais Garnier in Paris in March 2016 : a revolutionary production, which was to become one of the key events of the Paris Opera season. With great intelligence, Tcherniakov renews the dialogue between the two masterpieces, and reveals their