Organization

Conductor

Ruben Aharonian

Chorus master

Olga Zhilinskaya

Production designer

Elena Vershinina

Choreographer

Alla Alexandrova

Stage director

Sergey Mindrin

Singer

Tenor

Dmitry Semkin

Herman

Soprano

Galina Mikhalina

Lisa

Elvira Gurieva

Mezzo-soprano

Alevtina Smirnova

Countess

Baritone

Vladislav Kalashnikov

Count Tomsky

Pavel Kryuchko

Prince Yeletsky

Chekalinsky

Alexey Chistyakov

Bass

Vladimir Alexandrov

Surin

Anna Stolbova

Masha

Chaplitsky

Oleg Loginov

Rushan Shaibekov

Сергей Гарашкин

Narumov

Master of Ceremonies

Eugene Rozov

Maria Maksakova

The Ghost of a Young Countess

Sapaev Mari State Opera and Ballet Theatre

Pikovaya Dama -  (The Queen of Spades)

Yoshkar-Ola

Russia

Pikovaya Dama Tchaikovsky,P

Public

The Queen of Spades

Approved

The plot of Pushkin's The Queen of Spades did not immediately interest Tchaikovsky. However, over time, this short story increasingly took possession of his imagination. Tchaikovsky was especially excited by the scene of Herman's fatal meeting with the countess. Its deep drama captured the composer, causing a burning desire to write an opera. The composition was begun in Florence on February 19, 1890. The opera was created, according to the composer, "with self-forgetfulness and pleasure" and was completed in an extremely short time - forty-four days. The premiere took place in St. Petersburg at the Mariinsky Theater on December 7 (19), 1890 and was a huge success.

Sergei Mindrin, stage director:
“The performance gives an opportunity to talk about what the struggle between good and evil is today, what is the destructive power of human passions, the essence of which is the passionate possession of something for oneself ...
... We took the path of psychological saturation of the material understandable to everyone human relations, so that it was not a parable for the sake of a parable. The viewer should be wondering why Lisa preferred Herman to the rich and handsome Prince Yelets, why Herman was so carried away by the idea of ​​three cherished cards. And our old Countess is not some kind of stilted image, but a living person who wants to sympathize with.

English

The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky, P. I., From (2010/2010), Directed by Sergey Mindrin,, Conductor Ruben Aharonian, Sapaev Mari State Opera and Ballet Theatre, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia

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