The Metropolitan Opera's revival of Tchaikovsky’s *The Queen of Spades*, which opened on Friday, May 23, 2025, offered a visually opulent and musically ambitious evening, though not without its ...

Read our review of The Queen of Spades at Garsington Opera, Wormsley. Despite intermittent vocal insecurities, Jack Furness’ staging of Tchaikovsky’s sinister opera carries conviction ...

Violetta Urmana had not sung at the Metropolitan Opera since 2017.

He had a composer lined up for “The Queen of Spades,” Nikolai Klenovsky, but he was disheartened that he and his brother would not be working on it together. Pyotr’s response to the letter ...

Recent events have prompted the assertion – understandable in Ukraine – that the idea of the Russian soul is a nationalist ...

Herman loses everything gambling on his Ace, only for the Queen of Spades to be dealt, and ends up in an asylum. In the opera, Herman takes his own life. Before then, Tchaikovsky adds a penultimate ...

From the Met: "A work of extreme moods and colors, 'The Queen of Spades' explores life’s frivolities as well as the darkest ...