Guest
Conductor - Mikhail Tatarnikov Director - David Pountney PROLOGUE Vera Sheloga, Olga’s mother - Evelina Dobracheva Ivan Sheloga, her husband - John Ieuan Jones Nadezhda, Vera’s sister - Amy Kerenza Sedgwick Prince Tokmakov, Nadezhda’s husband - David Shipley Vlasyevna, Olga’s nurse - Lioubov Sokolova OPERA Olga - Evelina Dobracheva Tucha, leader of a partisan group of rebels against Tsar Ivan - Carl Tanner Prince Tokmakov, the Mayor of Pskov and supposedly Olga’s father - David Shipley Boyar Nikita Matuta, an elderly aristocrat promised to Olga by her father - Adrian Thompson Vlasyevna, Olga’s nurse - Lioubov Sokolova Perfilyevna, a nurse - Amy Kerenza Sedgwick Stepanida Matuta , Olga’s friend - Rosie Rowell Tsar Ivan The Terrible - Clive Bailey Bomely, the Tsar’s physician - John Ieuan Jones Prince Afanasy Vyazemsky, a courtier - Phil Wilcox Yushko Velebin, a messenger from Novgorod - Colin Murray A Sentry - Mark Bonney
