London Philharmonic Orchestra

Rachmaninoff: Inside Out
The Miserly Knight

Wagner Das Rheingold (excerpts)
Rachmaninoff The Miserly Knight (semi-staged; sung in Russian with English surtitles)

Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Natalya Romaniw Woglinde
Rowan Hellier Wellgunde
Harriet Williams Flosshilde
Vsevolod Grivnov Loge / Albert
Maxim Mikhailov Wotan / Servant
Viacheslav Voynarovskiy Moneylender
Albert Shagidullin The Duke
Sergei Leiferkus Alberich / The Baron
Annabel Arden director
Lucy Carter lighting designer
Joanna Parker design consultant
Olivia Dermot Walsh production stage manager
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Pushkin’s semi-autobiographical poem The Miserly Knight, which tells of a stifled son pushing against his selfish father, drew from Rachmaninoff some of his richest, most atmospheric and emotionally fascinating music. Underneath the opera’s five highly characterised voices is a dark, surging and obsessive orchestra whose music seems to spring directly from Pushkin’s words. Before Rachmaninoff’s brooding Wagnerian prelude, Vladimir Jurowski conducts excerpts from the opening opera of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Das Rheingold, the first realisation of those glistening, churning structures that make the Ring’s music so magical.

In co-operation with the Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation.