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Quite, one might remark, upon seeing Stefan Herheim’s production of The Queen of Spades, first seen in Holland in 2016, and now given its UK premiere at the Royal Opera House. Tchaikovsky’s letter to his brother Modest illustrates how boundaries between the real and imagined can be breached, with, perhaps, a conflicting
Jun 7, 2015 · The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama) is a cautionary tale about gambling, greed and obsession. Laced with the supernatural, it traces one man's pursuit of wealth at the cost of his love, peace of mind and, ultimately, reason.
Jan 14, 2019 · As the venerable Countess, Felicity Palmer, a remarkable 74, nearly steals the show, a model of how to play a character role and still singing with plenty of voice. The passion and the drama...
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World Premiere: Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg, 1890. 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 Queen of Spades (Pique Dame) – opera in three Acts and seven scenes to a libretto by the composer & Modest Tchaikovsky based on the novella by Pushkin [sung in an English translation by Neil Bartlett & Martin Pickard, with English surtitles]
Jun 10, 2015 · Felicity Palmer is the ‘go-to’ mezzo-soprano when a femme de nom is required, and her Countess was a master class in bearing, elegance, diction, projection of the text and authoritative singing. No one else came near to her, although Peter Hoare’s Hermann certainly suggested his character’s sense of isolation from the officer class of ...
Felicity Palmer as Countess in Stefan Herheim's production of Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades, The Royal Opera Season 2018/2019. www.roh.org.uk/productions/the-queen-of-spades-by-stefan-...
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