Caged bird: Tchaikovsky stars in Herheim's Pique Dame

Par Mark Pullinger, 10 juin 2016

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“Herheim's concept is superbly conceived and executed; he makes Tchaikovsky the star of his own opera”

Critique faite à Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam, le 9 juin 2016

Tchaïkovski, La Dame de Pique

Dutch National Opera

Mariss Jansons, Direction

Stefan Herheim, Mise en scène

Philipp Fürhofer, Décors, Costumes

Misha Didyk, Herman

Alexey Markov, Tomsky

Vladimir Stoyanov, Yeletsky

Larissa Diadkova, La Comtesse

Andrei Popov, Tchekalinski

Svetlana Aksenova, Lisa

Anna Goryachova, Polina

Mikhail Makarov, Chaplitsky

Anatoli Sivko, Narumov

Andrii Goniukov, Sourine

Maria Fiselier, Macha

Olga Savova, La gouvernante

Chœur du Dutch National Opera

Orchestre royal du Concertgebouw

Christiaan Kuyvenhoven, Piano, Comédien

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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.

Caged bird: Tchaikovsky stars in Herheim's Pique Dame at Dutch National Opera