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Iolanta
Iolanta
,
Op.
69, is a lyric
opera
in one act by
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
. It was the last opera he composed. The
libretto
was written by the composer's brother
Modest Tchaikovsky
, and is based on the Danish play (
King René's Daughter
) by
Henrik Hertz
, a romanticised account of the life of
Yolande de Bar
. In the original Danish play, the spelling of the princess's name was "Iolanthe", later adopted for the otherwise unrelated
Gilbert and Sullivan
operetta of
that name
. The play was translated by Fyodor Miller and adapted by
Vladimir Zotov
. The opera received its premiere on 18 December 1892 in
Saint Petersburg
.
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