Royal Opera House: The Queen of Spades
Plot: The dark world of Tchaikovsky’s penultimate operatic masterpiece Queen of Spades hinges on obsession, greed, and a secret in winning at cards… In 2005, the Opéra Bastille mounted a compelling production featuring Vladimir Galouzine as the mad lover Hermann, Hasmik Papian as the doomed Lisa, and Irina Bogatcheva as the mysterious Comtesse.

Aleksandrs Antonenko
Vladimir Stoyanov
Eva-Maria Westbroek
Felicity Palmer
John Lundgren
Antonio Pappano
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky