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The Queen of Spades

Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Librettist: Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the composer, after Alexander Pushkin's novella


Director: Richard Jones

Designer: John Macfarlane

Lighting Designer: Jennifer Tipton

Choreographer: Linda Dobell


Production originated: 2000

Date of last performance: 2009

Chorus: 10 sopranos, 10 mezzos, 10 tenors, 10 basses

Actors / dancers: 2 puppeteers

On stage musicians: 1 trumpet, 1 percussionist

Edition: RSM (vocal), Boosey & Hawkes (orchestral)

No of containers: 4


A co-production with Den Norske Opera, Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Canadian Opera Company