Pikowaja Dama - Pique Dame

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Tchaikovsky's second most popular opera today, after EUGEN ONEGIN, inspires above all by its sheer size: in PIQUE DAME the mood skillfully changes from large, representative choral and ensemble opera to psychological chamber play scenes. The glamour of a sophisticated elite meets the misery of the proletariat ... Conductor: Sebastian Weigle; Production: Sam Brown; With Martin Muehle, Sondra Radvanovsky, Hanna Schwarz, Lucio Gallo, Thomas Lehman / Dean Murphy, Annika Schlicht / Karis Tucker and others.
Tchaikovsky's second most popular opera today, after EUGEN ONEGIN, inspires above all by its sheer size: in PIQUE DAME the mood skillfully changes from large, representative choral and ensemble opera to psychological chamber play scenes. In the process, the glamor of a sophisticated elite meets the misery of the outlaw proletariat. Pushkin's short novella became for Pyotr and Modest Tchaikovsky the starting point for a psychogram of the two main characters Hermann and Lisa, who are united in their fatalistic hopelessness and their failing striving for freedom. The outsider Hermann is unhappily in love with the unattainable Lisa, who comes from better circles. Only a mysterious map secret, which Lisa's aunt, the old countess, guards, seems to offer a way out. But when Hermann tries to wrest the secret from the Countess, she dies. However, she reveals the card combination to him in a dream. Reality and delusion can now hardly be distinguished for Hermann. Instead of starting a new life with Lisa, he rushes back to the gambling tables. This content has been machine translated.