Tchaikovsky Queen of Spades
Opera Holland Park
***** The Express
''Director Rodula Gaitanou has brought out the feverish psychosis that burns through the intense melodrama with its chilling supernatural twist.'
***** classicalsource.com
'A highlight of recent seasons'
**** The Telegraph
'Opera Holland Park delivers a corker with its sumptuous new production of The Queen of Spades, Tchaikovsky’s most sophisticated and ambitious work for the theatre... an enthralling performance.'
**** The Independent
'Rodula Gaitanou's production is directed, designed, conducted, lit, and choreographed with wonderful assurance.'
'All the gutsiness and grace one could wish for'
**** The Evening Standard
'A work of hallucinatory intensity that chills the soul'
**** The Guardian
'Decrepit Countess rules over vampiric high society'
**** The Stage
'Steadily rising tension’
Backtrack
'Superbly staged'
set and costume design: Cordelia Chisholm
lighting design: Simon Corder
movement director: Jamie Neale
Conductor: Peter Robinson
Herman: Peter Wedd
Liza: Natalya Romaniw
Countess: Rosalind Plowright
Count Tomsky: Richard Burkhard
Prince Yeletsky: Grant Doyle
Polina: Laura Woods
Masha: Daisy Brown
Chekalinsky: Aled Hall
Surin: Simon Wilding
Governess: Laura Zigmantaite
Chaplitsky:Oliver Brignall
Narumov: Henry Grant Kerswell
Master of Ceremonies:Timothy Langston
OHP chorus
chorus Master: Philip Voldman
performances 2,4,6,9,11,13 August 2016