Pikovaja Dama
Intro
Pikovaja Dama
Pjotr Iljitsj Tsjaikovski (1840 - 1893)
04/05/1999 in Ghent - 21/05/1999 in Antwerp
- Musical direction: Ivan Törzs
- Director: Guy Joosten
- Hermann: John Horton Murray
- Graaf Tomski: Wojtek Drabowicz
- Prins Jeletski: Garry Magee
- Gravin: Rita Gorr / Anny Schlemm
After "Yevgeny Onegin", "Pikovaya Dama", also known as "The Queen of Spades", is Tchaikovsky's most famous and successful opera.
The composer was fascinated with Pushkin's short story of the same
name, about the impoverished officer Herman, who tries to buy love and
status through card-playing before it finally becomes his own undoing.
Set in eighteenth-century St. Petersburg, Tchaikovsky's work, with its
endless stylistic references, pays tribute to the age of his idol,
Mozart.
Practical
Surtitles: Dutch.
Team
- Musical direction
- Director
- Set design
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Costumes
Jorge Jara
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Lightning
Davy Cunningham
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Chorus master
Peter Burian
- Hermann
- Graaf Tomski
- Prins Jeletski
- Gravin
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Anny Schlemm
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Lisa
Anne Williams-King
- Paulina
- Tsjekalinski
- Soerin
- Tsjaplitski
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Naroemov
Stephen Hindes
- Gouvernante
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