The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh

Movie · 3h 7m

Starring Vladimir Vaneev, Maxim Aksenov, Svetlana Ignatovich, John Daszak

Opera lies at the heart of Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful idiom, but performances are few and far between; this realisation of his penultimate and grandest stage work is a very rare and special experience. Kitezh is known as "the Russian Parsifal", which encapsulates its mystical flavour and steady unfolding of a legend of redemption