The Queen of Spades at Mariinsky Theatre II
Dates: (5/27/2015 - 7/26/2015 )
Mariinsky Theatre II |
34 Dekabristov Street
St Petersburg,Northwestern 190121
Phone: +7 812 326 4141
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One of the most perfect operas world classical "Spades", like every true masterpiece, its not, and none of the interpretations of the Opera could not and cannot be a perfect role model. The new setting is another stage in the process of infinite understanding meanings of creation of the genius composer. The unique atmosphere of the Opera attach mystical moments. Secret of the three cards keeps in suspense until the very end, tragedy and death of Lisa withdrawn deep into the soul, fantastic realism of St. Petersburg creates a special background for the deployment of musical text: there are strange Russian city. It can only dream about light, about life in all of its mighty beauty. Fantastic images, creative here, are inevitably look eerily real ghosts and real images are distorted and delusional. Tchaikovsky – musician-poet of this city, with the most dominant force of imagination which realized the horror of fancifulness of Petersburg. Not surprisingly, the plot of "Peak" ladies "was supposed to conjure the composer exuberant sound flow of images and rhythms, shrouded in harmony and colour quite specific. The scene in the bedroom of the Countess, the scene in the barracks, the scene at Winter grooves – all this is Petersburg with its hypnosis irrational, with its vorožboj and claws ... " (B. Asafiev. from "about the music of Tchaikovsky").
Ages: Age category 12+
Cast and Creative team for The Queen of Spades at Mariinsky Theatre II
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky, after the novel by Alexander Pushkin
Musical Director and Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Stage Director: Alexei Stepanyuk
Set Designer: Alexander Orlov
Costume Designer: Irina Cherednikova
Lighting Designer: Alexander Sivaev
Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko
Musical Preparation: Irina Soboleva
Choreographer: Ilya Ustyantsev
Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky, after the novel by Alexander Pushkin
Musical Director and Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Stage Director: Alexei Stepanyuk
Set Designer: Alexander Orlov
Costume Designer: Irina Cherednikova
Lighting Designer: Alexander Sivaev
Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko
Musical Preparation: Irina Soboleva
Choreographer: Ilya Ustyantsev
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