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Georg Philipp Telemann
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Dimitry Rostovsky
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Gioachino Rossini
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Alexander Ostrovsky, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Modest Mussorgsky
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Giacomo Puccini
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Richard Strauss
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Alexei Verstovsky
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Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Francesco Cilea
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César Cui. Igor Stravinsky
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Dmitry Shostakovich
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Umberto Giordano
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Dmitry Shostakovich
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Ruggero Leoncavallo
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Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns
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Anton Rubinstein
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Hector Berlioz
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Giacomo Puccini
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Modest Mussorgsky
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Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Mieczysław Weinberg
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Sergei Banevich
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Georges Bizet
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Gaetano Donizetti
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Richard Wagner
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Richard Strauss
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Jacques Offenbach
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Sergei Prokofiev
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Andrei Rubtsov
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Tatiana Kamysheva
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Gioacchino Rossini
Alexander Borodin
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Georges Bizet
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The Queen of Spades is the summit of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s work and one of the most famous Russian operas in the world. The highest emotional tension in the key scenes engrosses the modern audiences just as much as it used to do to the composer’s contemporaries.
The Queen of Spades was created by Tchaikovsky in less than five months. The composer worked with feverish excitement, often being ahead of the librettist, who was his own brother Modest. Struggling to wait for the libretto to be complete, the text for some pieces (the folk dancing in scene 2, Liza’s aria in scene 6 and some other), Tchaikovsky wrote himself.
Premiered on February 15, 2018.
Presented with two intervals.
Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky after the novel of the same name by Alexander Pushkin
The Bolshoi Theatre production
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Act I
Scene 1
Petersburg. Strolling in the Summer Garden, Surin tells Chekalinsky about the previous night’s gambling: as usual, Нerman had spent the whole night by the gaming table, gloomily following the game, but not taking part in it.
Нerman and Count Tomsky come into the garden. Нerman admits he is in love with a girl whose name he does not know even. He is afraid she is above him in station and therefore will prove beyond his reach.
Prince Yeletsky informs his friends that he is to get married. Нerman asks him about his betrothed. „There she is”, Yeletsky replies, pointing to Liza who is in the company of the old Countess, known as The Queen of Spades. Gherman is in despair: for Liza is the very girl with whom he is in love.
„Happy day, I bless you!” Yeletsky says. „Unhappy day, I curse you!” Нerman exclaims.