La Dame de Pique/Пиковая дама

Hermann – Vladimir Galouzine
Lisa – Hasmik Papian
Countess – Irina Bogatcheva
Count Tomsky – Nikolai Putilin
Prince Yeletsky – Ludovic Tézier
Polina – Christianne Stotijn
Chekalinsky – Vsevolod Grivnov
Surin – Sergei Stilmachenko
Macha – Irina Tchistjakova
La Maître de cérémonie - Robert Catania
Tchaplintski - Grzegorz Staskiewicz
Narumov - Slawomir Szichowiak
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky-conductor

It took Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky only 44 days to write the score of THE QUEEN OF SPADES. ‘It seems to me that this is my best work ever’, writes the composer once the score is finished.
After EUGENE ONEGIN, THE QUEEN OF SPADES is Tchaikovsky’s second adaptation of a text by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. It is Tchaikovsky’s brother Modest who reworks Pushkin’s short story into a libretto.

Liza loves Herman, a young officer. But the latter wants to draw a secret from her grandmother, the old Countess: How is it that she is such a successful gambler? Herman confronts her and forces her to reveal her secret, menacing her with a revolver. The Countess dies from the shock. It is her ghost that later appears before the young officer and gives away the fatal sequence of cards: three, seven, ace…

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