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The Queen of Spades or Pique Dame, [a] Op. 68 (Russian: Пиковая дама, Pikovaya dama listen ⓘ, French: La Dame de Pique) is an opera in three acts (seven scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on the 1834 novella of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, but with a dramatically altered plot.
Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades) is an operetta in two acts by Franz von Suppé to a German-language libretto very loosely based on Alexander Pushkin's 1834 short story "The Queen of Spades". The author of the libretto is S. Strasser (probably Suppé's second wife Sofie Strasser). [1]
The Queen of Spades (Russian: «Пиковая дама», romanized: Pikovaya dama) is an 1834 novella with supernatural elements by Alexander Pushkin, about human avarice. Written in autumn 1833 in Boldino , [ 1 ] it was first published in the literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya in March 1834 .
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!
1890 The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky). In a letter to his brother and librettist the composer said that "the opera is a masterpiece". [145] 1891 L'amico Fritz (Mascagni). This work has been thought of as a late example of opera semiseria. [146] 1892 Iolanta (Tchaikovsky). Tchaikovsky's last lyrical opera set to a libretto by his brother Modest ...
The queen of spades is a playing card in the standard 52-card deck. Queen of Spades may also refer to: "The Queen of Spades" (story), an 1833 short story by Alexander Pushkin The Queen of Spades, an 1890 opera by Tchaikovsky; The Queen of Spades, a Russian short film
The Queen of Spades (Russian: Пиковая Дама, Pikovaya Dama), Op. 70, is the score composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936 for the planned but unrealized film by Mikhail Romm. The film was to be based on the 1834 short story "The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin, and was intended for release in 1937, the centenary of Pushkin's death. [1]
For Dubrovsky he asked Modest Tchaikovsky to write a libretto after Alexander Pushkin, as Modest had done for his brother Pyotr (the best-known example of this is The Queen of Spades). The opera was completed in 1894 and successfully staged on January 15 (OS January 3) 1895, at the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, conducted by the composer.