Prince Igor - Novaya Opera, Coliseum, 1 April 2014
A despotic invader annexes a troubled state and casts out the rightful ruler. Given recent events, Prince Igor may not be the most sensitive choice to mark the UK-Russia Year of Culture
But if anyone cares to discover Russia's musical achievements instead of dwelling on its political mis-steps, Novaya Opera's gloriously traditional and stupendously performed production is the place to start.
Tickets for Novaya Opera's Prince Igor at the Coliseum are 40% off with an Amazon Local deal
All performances (1 to 5 April) are included in the offer.
Prices are £30 (regular price £50) for Upper Circle and £46 (regular price £78) for Stalls or Dress Circle. You don't get to choose your seat, but you will be shown exactly which seat number you have been allocated before you pay. Seats are selected from a special allocation, not from those showing as unsold on the ENO website.
After paying you will receive an e-ticket voucher, so you will need either a printer or a mobile device to take this to the theatre.
You can watch Borodin's Prince Igor in cinemas on 1 March courtesy of the Met.
Or you can wait a month and see the rarely-performed work live, when the Moscow-based Novaya Opera bring their traditionally-styled production to London.
For Dmitri Tcherniakov's Met offering, a new (and apparently lengthy) version of Borodin's unfinished score has been cobbled together. The Russians will be using the more familiar Glazunov/Rimsky-Korsakov completion.
The Novaya, by the way, is not one of those cooked up purveyors of cut price Carmens - in fact it's considered to be in the top rank of Russian opera companies. Whether they tour with all their regular singers and musicians is of course another question.
They have (optimistically) booked the Coliseum for five nights from 1 to 5 April, with ticket prices running from £10 to £78. I can't see it selling out at those prices, so there may be discounts later.
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