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
