Organization

Conductor

Simon Bruckard

Stage director

Constantine Costi

Set designer

Dann Barber

Costume designer

Sabina Myers

Singer

Baritone

Matan Franco

Sascha Bubenzow

Mezzo-soprano

Syrah Torri

Masha

Bass

Eamon Dooley

Semyon Semyonovich

Lighting designer

Lisa Mibus

Sound designer

Sam Moxham

Choreographer

Shannon Burns

Victorian Opera

Soprano

Teresa Ingrilli

Lidotschka

Tenor

Douglas Kelly

Boris Korezki

Michael Dimovski

Sergej Gluschkow

Leah Phillips

Liusia

Alastair Cooper-Golec

Fjodor Michailowitsch Drebednjow

Amanda Windred

Vava

Nicholas Beecher

Afanassi Iwanowitsch Barabaschkin

Orchestra

Orchestra Victorian Opera Chamber Ensemble

Others

Victorian Opera Chorus

English

Melbourne, Cheremushki

Southbank

Australia

Arts Centre Melbourne

Playhouse

Melbourne, Cheremushki: Cheryomushki, Op.105

Public

Moscow, Cheryomushki, Op.105

Approved

Costume designs by Sabina Myers

Melbourne, Cheremushki  A housing crisis, income inequality and the pitfalls of progress — who would have thought that a Russian operetta from 1958 would ring…

Melbourne, Cheremushki: Cheryomushki, Op.105 Shostakovich

A housing crisis, income inequality and the pitfalls of progress — who would have thought that a Russian operetta from 1958 would ring so true today?

This witty production transports visionary composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s score and Vladimir Mass and Mikhail Chervinsky’s sarcastically funny libretto from a Soviet-era Khrushchev-style apartment complex to contemporary Melbourne. But this operetta makes light work of heavy issues through its darkly comedic use of magic realism into everyday struggles with a truth-telling park bench, a phone booth for the pure of heart and a garden where flowers bloom for good people and wither for bad.

Featuring our ‘VO Emerges’ cast, this will be your chance to see the next generation showcase their talents and innovative perspectives on the challenges we still face in Melbourne today. So step into a world where social challenges are examined through a lens of comedy, satire and magic.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble