Name: Pikovaya Dama
Start: 1992-08-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1992-08-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Glyndebourne

Organization

Dirección orquestal

Andrew Davis

Dirección de escena

Graham Vick

Escenografía

Richard Hudson

Iluminación

Thomas Webster

Coreografia

Ron Howell

Dirección coral

David Angus

Tenor

Yuri Marusin

Herman

Soprano

Nancy Gustafson

Lisa

Mezzosoprano

Felicity Palmer

Condesa

Barítono

Sergei Leiferkus

Conde Tomsky

Dimitri Kharitonov

Príncipe Jeletzki

Graeme Matheson Bruce

Tschekalinski

Bajo

Andrew Slater

Surin

Robert Burt

Chaplitzky

Christopher Thornton Holmes

Narúmov

Marie-Ange Todorovitch

Masha

Enid Hartle

Gobernante

Anne Dawson

Prilepa

Rachael Tovey

Others

The Glyndebourne Chorus

Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Glyndebourne

Pikovaya Dama -  (La dama de picas)

Lewes

Reino Unido

The unforgettable Nancy Gustavson gives life to Lisa, the unlucky lover of Hermann in the tragic story of The Queen of spades.

Herman, a young officer, is in love with an unknown woman from the nobility. The beautiful young lady eventually appears to be Lisa, the fiancée of Prince Yeletski, Herman's army friend. But Lisa is unhappy with this engagement imposed on her. She prefers the romantic personality of Herman. Herman and Lisa meet in secret and declare their undying love to each other. But Herman has no money. What to do? Lisa's grandmother, the Countess, is said to know the secret to win without fail at card games. Breaking into the old woman's room, Herman begs the Countess to reveal her secret. Terrified by the threatening young man, the Countess dies. Lisa, walking into the room, discovers her lover in front of her grandmother's corpse. Crying, she beseeches Hermann to leave at once. The Countess' ghost appears to Hermann, and reveals to the young man the secret: the three winning cards are three, seven and ace. After a last meeting with Hermann, Lisa realizes that there is no hope for to have the love she desires so jumps into the Neva. Herman, in a state of madness, goes to the casino and bets everything he owns. He loses everything. The last winning card was not an ace, but the queen of spades.

Inspired by the The Queen of spades written by Alexander Pushkin, Tchaikovski's opera was premiered in Saint Petersburg in 1890. The Queen of Spades is an intense work in which death seems to be the unavoidable outcome. The remarkable production by Graham Vick plunges the spectator into the desperate love struggle between the innocent Lisa and Hermann, a dark character who steadily advances towards madness.

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