Chorus (with soloists)
and piano (Soli:
SSSMezMezATTTTBarBarBB -
choir: SSAATTBB and child
ch - picc.2.2(cor
ang).2.B-clar.2 - 4.2.3.1
- timp.perc - hp - pno -
str - stage music: child
trp and child dr)
SKU:
BR.BES-3074
The
Queen of Spades - Opera
in 3 Acts. Composed
by Pjotr Iljitsch
Tschaikowsky. Choir;
Softcover. Bessel,
London. Opera; Music
theatre; Romantic.
Piano/Vocal Score. 10
pages. Duration 150'.
Breitkopf and Haertel
#BES 3074. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.BES-3074).
ISBN
9790004610008. 11.5 x 8.5
inches. Russian / French
/ German /
English.
Duration:
full eveningText by
Modest Tchaikovsky after
Alexander Puschkins
NovelTranslation: German
(W. Ebermann/M. Koerth
and collaboration by H.
Seeger); (R. Lauckner)
Place and time:
Petersburg, End of the
18th CenturyCharacters:
Hermann (tenor) - Count
Tomskij (baritone) -
Prince Jeletzkij
(baritone) -Czekalinskij
(tenor) - Ssurin (bass) -
Tschaplitzkij (tenor) -
Narumoff (bass) - The
Counts Wife
(mezzo-soprano) - Lisa
(soprano) - Pauline
(alto) - Governess
(mezzo-soprano) - Mascha
(soprano) - A Steward
(tenor) Characters of the
intermezzo: ChloE
(soprano) - Daphnis
(Pauline) (alto) - Plutus
(Count Tomskij)
(baritone) By the time
Tchaikovsky began writing
Pique Dame, he had
already composed eight
operas and had very well
developed ideas about the
drama and aesthetics of
the genre. Gustav Mahler,
who judged Pique Dame to
be Tchaikovskys most
mature and artistically
solid musical work, is
certainly not alone with
his opinion. A confession
made by Tchaikovsky a few
months before his death
show to want extent the
composer, after an
initial period of
hesitation, was possessed
by his work on this
opera: I composed it with
uncommon passion and
enthusiasm, suffered from
everything that happens
in it and related to it
with every fibre in my
body (it went so far that
I even feared the
apparition of the ghost
for a while). Now I hope
that all my enthusiasm,
excitement and devotion
will find an echo in the
hearts of receptive
listeners.
Tchaikovsky Op. 39
