Charodeika

In this unknown pearl by Tchaikovsky, Nastasia, owner of an inn in a Russian city, gets into trouble with the local council. Her inn is a haven for artists, ‘dreamers’ and anti-conformists. A thorn in the side of corrupt minister Mamirov, who cannot get the governor, prince Nikita, to intervene. The rivalry between Nikita and his son Yuri is fierce when both fall for the charms of the ‘enchantress’. An opera full of the contradictions between yound and old, conservatisme versus progressiveness, political governance versus personal lives.