OPERA FILM:
PIQUE DAME Bavarian State Opera 2024
“Magnetic pull: Soprano Asmik Grigorian shines” (Salzburger Nachrichten) “Madness in close-up” (BR Klassik): Director Benedict Andrews plunges Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame at the Bavarian State Opera into a cinematic film noir aesthetic, in which the characters regularly seem to vanish into shadow and mystery. Brandon Jovanovich “plays a credibly broken anti-hero as Hermann” (Münchner Merkur) and Asmik Grigorian as Lisa once again steals the show with her unerring dramatic and vocal skills. Conductor Aziz Shokhakimov gives a convincing debut at the podium of the state orchestra, managing a “dramatically stirring, propulsive interpretation” (FAZ).
- Composer: Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky
- Conductor: Aziz Shokhakimov
- Orchestra: Bayerisches Staatsorchester
- Artists: Brandon Jovanovich, Asmik Grigorian, Roman Burdenko, Boris Pinkhasovich, Violeta Urmana, Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
- Production year: 2024
- Run time: 02:51:00
- Director: Stage Director: Benedict Andrews
- Producers: UNITEL, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bel Air, Mezzo, Medici
Saturday, June 28th
1:30pm
Jarvis Conservatory
Tickets are $20
