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Garsington Opera: The Queen of Spades

Garsington Opera
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Painting of a woman playing the piano in a glowing white dress with a man in the background

Artists

Douglas Boyd – conductor
Jack Furness – director
Garsington Opera Chorus
Garsington Opera Youth Company

 

Herman – Aaron Cawley
Lisa/Chloe – Laura Wilde
The Countess – Diana Montague
Count Tomsky/Plutus – Robert Hayward
Prince Yeletsky – Roderick Williams
Polina/Daphnis – Stephanie Wake-Edwards
Tchekalinsky – Sam Furness
Surin – Simon Shibambu

Programme

Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades

Tchaikovsky’s intensely dramatic opera is a tragedy about the remorseless nature of fate, brought to life with music on a grand scale.

Hermann is a soldier in St. Petersburg, isolated from his fellow officers by his strange and obsessive behaviour. He is in love with Lisa, who tentatively returns his love but is engaged to another man. Lisa is the ward of an elderly, eccentric Countess, the toast of Paris society in her long-ago youth, rumoured to possess the knowledge of a winning combination of three cards. Having once confided that secret to two men, she was warned by an apparition that she would die at the hands of a third if she ever revealed the secret again. Hermann becomes fixated on the Countess and her three cards. He can think of nothing else and will do whatever is necessary to discover the secret.

Sung in Russian with English supertitles

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Prices & Discounts

£180 – £295

Box office

Garsington Opera Box Office: 01494 376037

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