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Gambling and Gothic: The Queen of Spades at Opera Holland Park

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“Rosalind Plowright gets one of those entrances that makes you sit up and take notice”
Reviewed at Holland Park Theatre, London on 2 August 2016
Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame)
Opera Holland Park
Peter Robinson, Conductor
Rodula Gaitanou, Director
Cordelia Chisholm, Set Designer
Peter Wedd, Herman
Natalya Romaniw, Lisa
Rosalind Plowright, The Countess
Richard Burkhard, Tomsky
Grant Doyle, Yeletsky
Laura Woods, Polina
Daisy Brown, Masha
Simon Wilding, Surin
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