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Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades: a guide to the best recordings

Mark Pullinger
Friday, May 16, 2025

Tchaikovsky’s card-game opera, based on Pushkin’s haunting novella, has received a range of treatments on stage, on film and in the studio. Mark Pullinger seeks out the ace in the pack

Stefan Herheim’s audacious 2016 production at Dutch National Opera may divide opinion but its interweaving of Tchaikovsky’s biography is compelling (photography: Monika Forster))
Stefan Herheim’s audacious 2016 production at Dutch National Opera may divide opinion but its interweaving of Tchaikovsky’s biography is compelling (photography: Monika Forster))

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