Name: Pikovaya Dama
Start: 2025-04-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-04-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro Regio

Organization

Admin

Teatro Regio di Torino

Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Den Norske Opera & Ballet

Canadian Opera Company

Conductor

Valentin Uryupin

Stage director

Richard Jones

Set designer

John Macfarlane

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Jennifer Tipton

Chorus master

Ulisse Trabacchin

Claudio Fenoglio

Orchestra

Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino

Others

Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino

Tenor

Mikhail Pirogov

Herman

Soprano

Zarina Abaeva

Lisa

Baritone

Elchin Azizov

Count Tomsky

Zlatogor

Mezzo-soprano

Jennifer Larmore

Countess

Contralto

Deniz Uzun

Polina

Milovzor

Alexey Dolgov

Chekalinsky

Bass

Vladimir Sazdovski

Surin

Ksenia Chubunova

Governess

Joseph Dahdah

Chaplitsky

Master of Ceremonies

Viktor Shevchenko

Narumov

Irina Bogdanova

Masha

Albina Tonkikh

Prilepa

Vladimir Stoyanov

Prince Yeletsky

Pikovaya Dama -  (The Queen of Spades)

Turin

Italy

Teatro Regio

Pikovaya Dama Tchaikovsky, P. I.

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Private

The Queen of Spades

Candela Meluzio

Approved

Čajkovskij considerava La dama di picche il suo miglior lavoro in assoluto: compose l’opera nel 1890 spinto da un’ispirazione travolgente, su un libretto del fratello tratto da un racconto breve di Puškin, uno dei più celebrati poeti russi. La storia è ambientata a San Pietroburgo, alla fine del Settecento. Il protagonista, Hermann, scopre che una vecchia contessa possiede un metodo infallibile per vincere a carte: essendo ossessionato dal gioco d’azzardo, per ottenere il segreto seduce Liza, la nipote dell’anziana. Il compositore riesce in modo magistrale a temperare il senso di tragedia imminente, espresso in arie di grande intensità e dolore, con pagine permeate di nostalgia per il passato, in cui si rende continuamente omaggio allo stile rococò e a Mozart, di cui Čajkovskij era un fervente ammiratore.

Conferenza-Concerto: mercoledì 26 Marzo ore 18 - Foyer del Toro

italiano

Tchaikovsky considered The Queen of Spades to be his best work ever. Composed in 1890 in a flurry of inspiration, the opera is set to the libretto written by his brother, based on a novella by the celebrated Russian poet Pushkin. The story unfolds in St. Petersburg at the end of the seventeen hundreds. Hermann, the lead character, hears that an old countess knows of an infallible method for winning at cards. His obsession with gambling leads him to seduce her granddaughter, Liza, in an effort to learn the secret. The composer shows all his masterly skill in drawing out the sense of imminent tragedy, conveyed in arias of tremendous intensity and pain, permeating the scene with a nostalgia for the past that pays constant tribute to Mozart’s rococo style, which Tchaikovsky greatly admired.


In this production by Richard Jones for the Welsh National Opera, the story is brought forward to early twentieth-century Russia, where relics of the country’s grand imperial past appear in the midst of the post-revolutionary chaos. In this setting, Hermann’s maniacal hallucinations take on grotesque turns, rendered on stage in the most surprising way. After a brilliant debut at the Teatro Regio in 2023 with Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride, maestro Valentin Urypin returns to conduct the Teatro Regio orchestra and chorus and a group of soloists specialised in late nineteenth-century Russian repertoire. And with them returns the ever-glorious Jennifer Larmore.

English

The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky, P. I., Wed 16 Apr 2025, From (2025/2025), Directed by Richard Jones,, Conductor Valentin Uryupin, Teatro Regio, Turin, Italy

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