The Queen of Spades

11/02/22, 19:00

Libretto: Modest Iljič Čajkovskij 
Author: Petr Iljič Čajkovskij 
Musical Preparation: Robert Kružík 
Conductor: Robert Kružík, Ondrej Olos 
Director: Martin Glaser 
Set Design: Pavel Borák 
Costume Design: Markéta Oslzlá-Sládečková 
Lighting Design: Martin Špetlík 
Chorus Master: Pavel Koňárek 
Dramaturgy: Patricie Částková 
Assistant Stage Director: Silvie Adamová 

Sung in Russian with Czech and English subtitles.

Three, seven, ace... three cards that always win. A secret which drives the young tsarist official Hermanto sacrifice his amorous relationship with young Liza and even to murder. His thirst for money and social status  destroys the lives of all people around him
and  drives him to insanity and suicide in the end. Tchaikovsky's penultimate opera was commissioned by the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg and, as in the case of Eugen Onegin, the composer used the literary legacy of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. However, Tchaikovsky substantially changed Pushkin's story and even wrote texts to some of the arias. Although the composer created  The
Queen of Spades in only 44 days, it is obviously a work of an experienced opera composer and dramatist.  He introduced a masterly psychological depiction of the main characters into the, originally romantic, story of a great love with a mystic plot, adding many dramatic as well as lyrical musical scenes. The Queen of Spades truly belongs among the most successful ofTchaikovsky's operas.

Heřman: Gianluca Zampieri j. h. 
Líza: Lucie Hájková j. h., Katarína Štůrová Juhásová 
Hraběnka: Veronika Hajnová Fialová, Jitka Zerhauová 
Hrabě Tomskij: v jednání 
Princ Jeleckij: Igor Loškár, Svatopluk Sem j. h. 
Pavlína: Václava Krejčí Housková, Jana Hrochová 
Čekalinskij: Petr Levíček 
Surin: Josef Škarka j. h. 
Čaplickij: Ivo Musil, Martin Pavlíček 
Narumov: Petr Karas 
Guvernantka: Jitka Klečanská 
Máša: Eva Daňhelová, Martina Králíková 
Prilepa / Chloë: Tereza Merklová Kyzlinková, Andrea Široká 
Milovzor / Daphnis (Pavlína): Václava Krejčí Housková,Jana Hrochová 
Zlatogor / Plutus (Tomskij): v jednání