PUPPETS AT THE OPERA

"...puppets execute the magic" The Daily Telegraph

Cherevichki by Tchaikovsky
Garsington Opera, Summer 2004

Director - Olivia Fuchs
Designer - Niki Turner
Puppets and Puppetry - Blind Summit Theatre

15, 19, 22, 26 June, 2, 9 July
Gardens open at 4pm

Based on Gogol's short story, "Christmas Eve", this is an early version of Cinderella: Beautiful Oxana promises to marry lovesick Vakula, the blacksmith, if he brings her the Tsarina's slippers. Hopeless he decides to kill himself. Then the devil jumps on his back and offers to help...

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