The Queen of Spades

26 pieces since 2011 — at 3 companies, most often at Gran Teatre del Liceu.

26 pieces
3 companies
16 years

Company Bolshoi Opera

Company Gran Teatre del Liceu

Venus of Barcelona

Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades straddles two genres. With a macabre plot that explores the boundaries of human obsession, it’s an early psychological thriller that makes the audience engage in a kind of voyeurism Alfred Hitchcock loved. Yet the plot drawn from Pushkin and the striking Romantic score with its references to Mozart, Bizet and Grétry firmly […]

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Company Royal Opera

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