Organization

Chorus master

Benoît Giaux

Singer

Tenor

Dmitrij Golovnin

Herman

Baritone

Laurent Naouri

Count Tomsky

Bass

Oleksandr Milev

Surin

Justin Hopkins

Narumov

Soprano

Anna Nechaeva

Lisa

Contralto

Charlotte Hellekant

Polina

Mezzo-soprano

Mireille Capelle

Governess

Conductor

Nathalie Stutzmann

Stage director

David Marton

Set designer

Christian Friedländer

Costume designer

Pola Kardum

Lighting designer

Henning Streck

Dramaturge

Lucien Strauch

Christoph Heil

Jacques Imbrailo

Prince Yeletsky

Maxime Melnik

Chaplitsky

Anne Sofie von Otter

Countess

Emma Posman

Masha

Pianist

Alfredo Abbati

Aleksander Kravets

Chekalinsky

Master of Ceremonies

La Monnaie/De Munt

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La Monnaie Chorus

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La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra

Académie des chœurs & Chœurs d'enfants et de jeunes de la Monnaie s.l.d. de Benoît Giaux

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Russian

Pikovaya Dama -  (The Queen of Spades)

Brussels

Belgium

La Monnaie

Pikovaya Dama Tchaikovsky,P

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The Queen of Spades

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Approved

When Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky wrote those words to his brother Modest in 1890, he didn’t know yet that history would prove him right. He composed The Queen of Spades, for which his brother wrote the libretto, in a feverish burst of creative energy. Unlike in the work of the same name by Pushkin, Hermann in the opera is torn between his feelings for Lisa and a destructive idée fixe. The delusions of card games, a consuming passion and the menace of fate are among the elements that Tchaikovsky uses to depict poetic moments that contrast with extravagant scenes set in high society. Do the fears and neuroses of the characters in The Queen of Spades have a particular resonance with our age? This is what the director David Marton, who previously staged Capriccio at La Monnaie, will set out to explore. Nathalie Stutzmann performed in our recital series in 2015; this will be her first time conducting at La Monnaie.

English

Quand il écrit ces mots, en 1890, à son frère Modeste qui lui en a fourni le livret, Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski ignore que l’histoire lui donnera raison. Il compose l’œuvre porté par une fébrile euphorie. Dans l’opéra, à la différence de la nouvelle éponyme de Pouchkine, Hermann est déchiré entre ses sentiments pour Lisa et une idée fixe destructrice. Leurres du jeu de cartes, passion dévorante, menace du destin… avec ces éléments, Tchaïkovski dépeint des moments poétiques, contrastant avec de fastueux tableaux de la haute société. Notre époque entend-elle encore les peurs et les névroses des personnages de La Dame de pique ? Le metteur en scène David Marton, de retour à la Monnaie après Capriccio, tentera d’y répondre. Nathalie Stutzmann fait ses débuts à la tête de notre orchestre.

français

The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky, P. I., From (2022/2022), Directed by David Marton,, Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann, La Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium

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