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The Queen of Spades - Bayerische Staatsoper

2024 · 170 min

A slow, dark plunge into obsession, staged like a film noir, with lush music and a mounting sense of dread.

Overview: Tchaikovsky’s tragic tale about a gambling obsession receives an alluringly mysterious film-noir treatment in Benedict Andrews’s production for the Bavarian State Opera, with soprano Asmik Grigorian and tenor Brandon Jovanovich.
How it feels: Dark, melancholic, tense and eerie. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Obsession, grief, fate, madness
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
grief
fate
madness
death
Places: big city
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: musical
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild