A rare opportunity to see Barber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work – opera from the age of Hitchcock, with an atmospheric score and tense, psychological twists. Abandoned by her lover Anatol, Vanessa retreats from the world, waiting and hoping with only her mother and her niece Erika for company. But when, 20 years later, Anatol’s handsome young son arrives unexpectedly, he shatters the calm of this shuttered household of women. Past and present love collides, and the aftershocks threaten to destroy them all.
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Virginie Verrez
Erika
Also in
The Metropolitan Opera: Roméo et Juliette
Manon Lescaut - Metropolitan Opera
Emma Bell
Vanessa
Edgaras Montvidas
Anatol
Also in
Il Trovatore
Mozart: Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail
Rosalind Plowright
The Old baroness
Also in
The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous
Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
William Thomas
Nicholas, the Major-Domo
Donnie Ray Albert
The old doctor
Also in
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Romanas Kudriašovas
Footman
No other roles listed
Jakub Hrůša
Self - Conductor
Also in
Die Moldau – Smetanas Welterfolg
Jakub Hrůša and Seong-Jin Cho Baden-Baden Easter Festival 2025
First release September 14, 2018
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · September 14, 2018
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No release date listed for United States.
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