Tchaikovsky on Fate, the Future of Russia, and Gambling Addiction
with Simon Morrison
Admission to this event is only available to patrons with tickets to the 7:30pm BSO performance on January 29. Due to limited space a separate RSVP for the talk is required to attend. An email invitation to RSVP will be sent to ticket holders for the evening performance. Please contact BSO Customer Service at 617-266-1200 with any questions.
Tchaikovsky on Fate, the Future of Russia, and Gambling Addiction
Magic cards; alcohol abuse; the decay and decline of Imperial Russia; a ghost, a winking corpse, and a sudden suicide; the rational tripping over in the irrational, the future folding into the present and the past. These are just some of the ingredients of Tchaikovsky’s great supernatural opera The Queen of Spades, a work of beautiful strangeness that has never lost its power to fascinate. This lecture dives deeply into its history, explaining what it’s all about, and how faro, the card game at the heart of the plot, is played.
