Dmitry Bertman’s production was staged in the open air, with the 17th-century wooden fort as its set.
The fifth Russian opera festival at the Taltsy Architectural and Ethnographic Museum opened on 28 June 2025 with the gala concert “Triumph of Russian Opera”. Soloists of the Novaya Opera, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Tatar Opera and Ballet Theatre and the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre sang arias and scenes from operas by Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Rubinstein and Mussorgsky; the second half was devoted to the 185th anniversary of Tchaikovsky’s birth. They were accompanied by the Governor’s Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilya Derbilov.
On 5 and 6 July Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades” in Dmitry Bertman’s production was performed on Taltsy’s open-air stage with soloists of the Helikon Opera. The set was the Ilimsk fort, a 17th-century wooden fortress.
Source (in Russian): IRK.ru, 17 June 2025.
