Afternoon at the Opera

The Queen of Spades

 
Picture of the Metropolitan Opera performing The Queen of Spades.

Picture of the Metropolitan Opera performing The Queen of Spades. The Metropolitan Opera

Description of Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades from The Metropolitan Opera's website:

Tchaikovsky’s eerie thriller of imperial Russia has its first performances at the Met since 2011. Tenor Yusif Eyvazov is Hermann, the fanatical gambler whose obsession with a powerful secret drives him to madness. Soprano Lise Davidsen makes her highly anticipated Met debut as his long-suffering lover, Lisa, with mezzo-soprano Larissa Diadkova as the otherworldly Countess. Baritone Igor Golovatenko is Yeletsky, baritone Alexey Markov is Tomsky, and Vasily Petrenko conducts.