The Queen of Spades [The Metropolitan Opera]

The read

It runs long at 2h 51m.

Synopsis

Elijah Moshinsky’s atmospheric production, designed by Mark Thompson, sets the stage for this gripping performance of Tchaikovsky’s passionate setting of Pushkin’s classic novel. Valery Gergiev’s idiomatic and authoritative conducting inspires a superb cast, headed by Plácido Domingo (Ghermann), breathtaking in his portrayal of a man unraveling toward suicide. Galina Gorchakova is Lisa, the woman he loves and destroys, Dmitri Hvorostovsky lends a superb voice and regal bearing to Prince Yeletsky; and Elisabeth Söderström is hair-raising as the old Countess. Olga Borodina is Paulina and Nikolai Putilin is Count Tomsky.

Ratings

Key crew

• Modest TchaikovskyWriter
• Elijah MoshinskyDirector

Cast

• Galina GorchakovaLisa
• Dmitri HvorostovskyPrince Yeletsky
• Plácido DomingoGherman
• Elisabeth SöderströmCountess
• Nikolai PutilinCount Tomsky