Name: Pikovaya Dama
Start: 2008-11-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2008-12-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Soprano

Maria Guleghina

Lisa

Contralto

Ekaterina Semenchuk

Polina

Mezzo-soprano

Felicity Palmer

Countess

Tenor

Ben Heppner

Herman

Baritone

Mark Delavan

Count Tomsky

Vladimir Stoyanov

Prince Yeletsky

Wendy Bryn Harmer

Prilepa

Erin Morley

Masha

Kathryn Day

Governess

Alan Oke

Chekalinsky

Mark Schowalter

Chaplitsky

Bernard Fitch

Master of Ceremonies

Bass

Paul Plishka

Surin

LeRoy Lehr

Narumov

Conductor

J David Jackson

Seiji Ozawa

Stage director

Elijah Moshinsky

Costume designer

Mark Thompson

Set designer

The Metropolitan Opera

Russian

Pikovaya Dama -  (The Queen of Spades)

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Tchaikovsky’s powerful adaptation of Pushkin’s story stars Ben Heppner as Hermann, the army officer whose obsession with gambling leads to tragedy. Maria Guleghina is Lisa, the young woman he falls in love with and abandons, and Felicity Palmer sings the mysterious old Countess whose secret Hermann is after. Vladimir Stoyanov is Prince Yeletsky, Lisa’s wronged fiancé, and Seiji Ozawa conducts.

Production booklet

Further reading