Organization

Singer

Baritone

Serban Vasile

Prince Yeletsky

Tenor

Carl Ghazarossian

Chekalinsky

Bass

Guy Bonfiglio

Narumov

Marc Larcher

Master of Ceremonies

Mezzo-soprano

Marie-Ange Todorovitch

Countess

Soprano

Elena Bezgodkova

Lisa

Contralto

Marion Lebègue

Polina

Svetlana Lifar

Governess

Anne-Marie Calloni

Masha

Prilepa

Stage director

Olivier Py

Conductor

Jurjen Hempel

Lighting designer

Bertrand Killy

Costume designer

Pierre-André Weitz

Choreographer

Daniel Izzo

Musical Studies

Kira Parfeevet

Set designer

Assistant Director

Decorator

Set assistant

Pierre Lebon

Milovzor

Aaron Cawley

Herman

Alik Abdukayumov

Count Tomsky

Nika Guliashvili

Surin

Christophe Poncet de Solages

Chaplitsky

Zlatogor

Opéra Grand Avignon

Opéra de Marseille

Opéra Nice Côte d'Azur

Others

Toulon Opera Choir

Maîtrise de l´Opéra Grand Avignon

Orchestra

Toulon Opera Orchestra

Orchestre National Avignon-Provence

Régie culturelle régionale

Pikovaya Dama -  (The Queen of Spades)

Avignon

France

Pikovaya Dama Tchaikovsky,P

Public

Private

The Queen of Spades

Approved

🔴 Teaser LA DAME DE PIQUEPiotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski Coproduction Région Sud Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, Arsud, Opéra de Toulon, Opéra de Nice, Opéra Grand Avi...

At the end of the 19th century, Russia fell back on a conservatism that changed course: it turned away from Prussia and became more readily Francophile, an alliance sealed by the famous Russian borrowings. When he received an order for a French opera in the style ofCarmen , Modest Tchaikovsky, the composer's brother, adapts Alexander Pushkin 's Queen of Spades for the stage and transposes the plot to the 18th century – with strong memories of the court of Louis XV.

But make no mistake, it was in the land of the tsars that Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky set up the gaming tables, precisely in Saint Petersburg, at the heart of power and court society. The opera opens the curtain on a genre scene, a choir of toddlers playing in the Summer Garden with their governesses, continues in a ceremonial salon where Catherine II enters to the sound of a Russian melody, and culminates with the manifestation of a ghost on the quays of the Neva; the score that Tchaikovsky considers from its creation in 1890 as his masterpiece remains a pinnacle of Russian fantastic art. Nathalie Gendrot

English

The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky, P. I., From (2022/2022), Directed by Olivier Py,, Conductor Jurjen Hempel, Opéra Grand Avignon, Avignon, France

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