The Queen of Spades [The Metropolitan Opera] (movie)

The Queen of Spades [The Metropolitan Opera] (movie)

  • Production country: US
  • Producer: Elijah Moshinsky
  • Genre: Music, Drama, Fantasy
  • Release date: 4/15/1999
  • Run time: 171 min.

Movie description

Elijah Moshinsky’s atmospheric production, designed by Mark Thompson, sets the stage for this gripping performance of Tchaikovsky’s passionate setting of Pushkin’s classic novel. Valery Gergiev’s idiomatic and authoritative conducting inspires a superb cast, headed by Plácido Domingo (Ghermann), breathtaking in his portrayal of a man unraveling toward suicide. Galina Gorchakova is Lisa, the woman he loves and destroys, Dmitri Hvorostovsky lends a superb voice and regal bearing to Prince Yeletsky; and Elisabeth Söderström is hair-raising as the old Countess. Olga Borodina is Paulina and Nikolai Putilin is Count Tomsky.

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Galina Gorchakova

Galina Gorchakova

Role(s): Lisa

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Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Role(s): Prince Yeletsky

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Plácido Domingo

Plácido Domingo

Role(s): Gherman

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Elisabeth Söderström

Elisabeth Söderström

Role(s): Countess

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Nikolai Putilin

Nikolai Putilin

Role(s): Count Tomsky

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