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Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades)

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Dutch National Opera and BalletAmstel 3, Amsterdam, North Holland, 1011 PN, Netherlands

Dates/times in Amsterdam time zone

Festival: Holland Festival

Programme

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893)

The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame)

Performers

Dutch National Opera
Mariss Jansons	Conductor
Stefan Herheim	Director
Philipp Fürhofer	Set Designer, Costume Designer
Chorus of Dutch National Opera
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Christiaan Kuyvenhoven	Piano, Actor
Misha Didyk	Tenor	Herman
Alexey Markov	Baritone	Tomsky
Vladimir Stoyanov	Baritone	Yeletsky
Larissa Diadkova	Mezzo-soprano	The Countess
Andrei Popov	Tenor	Chekalinsky
Svetlana Aksenova	Soprano	Lisa
Anna Goryachova	Mezzo-soprano	Polina
Mikhail Makarov	Tenor	Chaplitsky
Anatoli Sivko	Bass	Narumov
Andrii Goniukov	Bass	Surin
Maria Fiselier	Mezzo-soprano	Masha
Olga Savova	Mezzo-soprano	The Governess

Reviews of The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame), Op.68 directed by Stefan Herheim

***11

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, January 2019

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Caged bird: Tchaikovsky stars in Herheim's Pique Dame

Mark Pullinger, 10th June

The role of the outsider struck a chord with Tchaikovsky, whose homosexuality alienated him from society. Stefan Herheim takes that identification as the central idea in his remarkable new production at Dutch National Opera.

*****