Pique Dame
Opera in three acts and seven sets
Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky
Teatro alla Scala New Production
Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus
Treble Voices Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala Academy
| Conductor | Valery Gergiev |
| Staging | Matthias Hartmann |
| Sets | Volker Hintermeier |
| Costumes | Malte Lübben |
| Lights | Mathias Märker |
| Playwright | Michael Küster |
| Choreographer | Paul Blackman |
CAST |
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|---|---|
| Herman | Najmiddin Mavlyanov |
| Count Tomskij | Roman Burdenko |
| Prince Yeletsky | Alexey Markov |
| Chekalinsky | Yevgeny Akimov |
| Surin | Andrii Goniukov |
| Chaplitsky |
Sergey Radchenko |
| Narumov | Matías Moncada |
| Master of Ceremonies | Brayan Ávila Martínez |
| Countess | Julia Gertseva |
| Liza |
Asmik Grigorian Elena Guseva (8, 15 mar.) |
| Polina | Elena Maximova |
| Governess | Olga Savova |
| Masha/Prilepa | Maria Nazarova |
| Milovzor | Olga Syniakova |
Valery Gergiev proposes another masterpiece of the Russian repertoire after the splendid Khovanshchina by Mussorgsky he conducted in 2019. With a libretto by Tchaikovsky’s brother Modest based on Pushkin’s tale, the opera was composed primarily in Florence in 1890 and is one of the composer’s crowning artistic achievements. The obsessive atmospheres of this classic foray into the curse of gambling are entrusted to the director Matthias Hartmann, who has already staged Der Freischütz and Idomeneo at La Scala. Asmik Grigorian returns to Piermarini’s stage as Liza.
