Setting the opera in hospital or mental institution is not a new idea, but one that serves Alden well in a large-scale spectacular only outdone by the recent Mastersingers for sheer visual volume. If ...

A work of extreme moods and colors, The Queen of Spades explores life’s frivolities as well as the darkest impulses of obsession, addiction, madness, and self-destruction. The gripping plot is set ...

One of the most perfect operas world classical "Spades", like every true masterpiece, its not, and none of the interpretations of the Opera could not and cannot be a perfect role model. The new ...

In the dicey business of bringing historic opera to contemporary audiences, Lyric Opera’s current production of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky‘s The Queen of Spades is a winner. Three hours and 45 minutes ...

The new Queen of Spades is one of the theate's major productions of recent years. Set designer Igor Ivanov, a renowned St.Petersburg artist whose works are displayed at British art galleries, turned ...

With Richard Farnes producing dynamic playing from the orchestra and Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts projecting his trademark combination of menace and vulnerability as Herman, Opera North’s production of ...

When money comes first, it never ends well. When money comes first, human life is depreciated. "Three cards, three cards," repeated obsessed Gherman in Tchaikovsky's famous opera The Queen of Spades.

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“Eugene Onegin” stands as Tchaikovsky’s most celebrated opera, but the score to “The Queen of Spades” deserves at least equal attention. If its narrative, loosely based on Pushkin’s short story, ...

Setting the opera in hospital or mental institution is not a new idea, but one that serves Alden well in a large-scale spectacular only outdone by the recent Mastersingers for sheer visual volume. If ...