A mirror into the soul: Stefan Herheim on Pique Dame

Stefan Herheim rehearsing Anna Goryachova and Jacquelyn Stucker in Pique Dame

Stefan Herheim rehearsing Vladimir Stoyanov (left) and John Lundgren (right) in Pique Dame

Jacquelyn Stucker and Stefan Herheim rehearsing Pique Dame

By Mark Pullinger, 08 January 2019

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“I want audiences to feel and see the music on stage and hear it with their eyes”

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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.

A mirror into the soul: Stefan Herheim on Pique Dame and the creative process of opera