One of the most perfect operas world classical "Spades", like every true masterpiece, its not, and none of the interpretations of the Opera could not and cannot be a perfect role model. The new ...

Sung in Russian, Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades unravels the tale of a man obsessed with gambling and a lucky card trick. His obsession sets him on the trail of the Countess who holds the secret to the ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of live Saturday matinee broadcasts concludes on June 7 with “The Queen of Spades,” Tchaikovsky’s dramatic thriller based on the novella by ...

“The Queen of Spades” is a tale of wildly romantic passion thwarted by a sinister obsession; in it playfulness, horror, intoxicated rapture and suicidal despair are capped off by a touch of the ...

Not only was the world premiere that December a success, but The Queen of Spades would also become one of just two of his 10 operas to find a permanent place in the general repertory worldwide — ...

The Queen of Spades-- Tchaikovsky-s opera about a man obsessed with gambling, money and love. At the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through September 25th. . 213 365 3500 or laoper.org.

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

With Richard Farnes producing dynamic playing from the orchestra and Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts projecting his trademark combination of menace and vulnerability as Herman, Opera North’s production of ...

There was a moment early on at Thursday's performance of Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades," in the Kirov Opera's production at the Kennedy Center Opera House, that established the company's ...

Tchaikovsky’s macabre thriller, set against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia, is back in the Met’s atmospheric staging. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva makes her highly anticipated role debut as Lisa, the young ...

A roar from the orchestra, a bolt of lightning across the stage, and the Domingo era at the Los Angeles Opera had gotten off to a spellbinding start, memorably, sensationally. In conference after ...