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The Queen of Spades or Pique Dame, Op. 68 (Russian: Пиковая дама, Pikovaya dama listen ⓘ, French: La Dame de Pique) is an opera in three acts (seven scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on the 1834 novella of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, but with a ...
Feb 13, 2024 · Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame, or The Queen of Spades, is a story of love, jealousy and money, in which the game of cards becomes an obsession. The work is particularly impressive for its sheer scale, skilfully shifting from grand, representative choral and ensemble opera to psychological scenes of chamber drama.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) enjoyed tremendous fame during his lifetime as a composer of symphonic music and ballets. Today, his operas also enjoy growing popularity. The composer’s brother Modest (1850–1916) adapted the libretto for The Queen of Spades , with many passages created by Tchaikovsky himself, from a short story by ...
Tchaikovsky’s last full-length opera, The Queen of Spades is a strange combination of the luridly dramatic, depicting the destruction of the three major characters through an obsession with cards, and the background setting of elegant eighteenth century St Petersburg, complete with pastiche music in an appropriate style.
Composers | Genres | Operas | Libretti | Arias | About. Pikovaya dama (The Queen of Spades) - 1890. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 - 1893. Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky based on a story by Alexander Pushkin. First performance at Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg on 19 December 1890.
The Queen of Spades. There’s passion and drama galore in Tchaikovsky’s rich setting of Pushkin’s chilling novel of obsession. Dashing Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Prince Yeletsky, engaged to Lisa (Galina Gorchakova) who is also loved by Gherman (Plácido Domingo at his most romantically impassioned).
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