Carte blanche: A muddled Queen of Spades

Von Mark Pullinger, 07 Juni 2015

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“Pushkin’s supernatural tale... becomes a tired assemblage of Alden tropes but is stylishly delivered”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: The London Coliseum, London, am 6 Juni 2015

Tschaikowsky, Pique-Dame

English National Opera

Edward Gardner, Musikalische Leitung

David Alden, Regie

Gideon Davey, Bühnenbild

Peter Hoare, Herman

Giselle Allen, Lisa

Dame Felicity Palmer, Gräfin

Nicholas Pallesen, Jeletzkij

Gregory Dahl, Tomskij

Catherine Young, Pauline

Katie Bird, Mascha

Valerie Reid, Gouvernante

Peter Van Hulle, Tschaplitzkij

Colin Judson, Tschekalinskij

Charles Johnston, Narumow

Wyn Pencarreg, Surin

English National Opera Chorus

English National Opera Orchestra

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Carte blanche: A muddled Queen of Spades from David Alden at ENO