Ivan the Terrible, Grange Park Opera, June 2021
Posted on 25 June 2021Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera, often called The Maid of Pskov, gives a human insight to Ivan IV (the ‘Terrible’) who encounters a young woman in Pskov (near the Latvian-Estonian border) he realises is his own daughter. She has no idea he is her real father, and will never find out as she is shot in the confusion of an attempted uprising headed by the young man she loves. My review in The Article.