A chilling merry-go-round: Prokofiev’s The Gambler in Vienna

By Snapdragon, 07 October 2017

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“Linda Watson as Babulenka... Thus goes grandeur!”

Reviewed at Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna on 4 October 2017

Prokofiev, The Gambler

Vienna State Opera

Simone Young, Conductor

Karoline Gruber, Director

Roy Spahn, Set Designer

Mechthild Seipel, Costume Designer

Elena Guseva, Polina

Linda Watson, Babulenka

Elena Maximova, Blanche

Misha Didyk, Alexei

Thomas Ebenstein, The Marquis

Morten Frank Larsen, Mr Astley

Dmitry Ulyanov, The General

Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

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Snapdragon

Snapdragon is an experienced concert- and opera-goer in Vienna and other music metropoles. Musical emphases include opera (especially Baroque opera) and piano music. As an Austrian native, Snapdragon can’t resist an operetta every now and then.

A chilling merry-go-round: Prokofiev’s The Gambler at Vienna State Opera