We kindly inform our audience that, due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, The Queen of Spades will be staged with a different production than previously announced. The conductor, Vladimir Uryupin, and the cast remain unchanged.
On the stage of the Regio, we present a production created last year by the Deutsche Oper Berlin, originally conceived just before the pandemic by Graham Vick, who sadly passed away in 2021 due to a Covid infection. This concept was later revisited and developed by the English director Sam Brown, who shares his perspective on the story, penned by Pushkin and masterfully set to music by Tchaikovsky: "Hermann is an ordinary man trapped in a social limbo. He lives in a barracks dormitory, earns enough for a decent life but far from comfort, and envies what he cannot have: wealth, respect, and Lisa’s love. Hermann looks at the world through the eyes of someone who feels excluded, living in a sort of 'Instagram reality,' where he idealizes others’ lives without seeing their flaws. In a perfectly ordered 'model' society dominated by predefined roles, Lisa tries to escape this rigidity, while Hermann aspires to become part of it. Ultimately, none of them is truly satisfied, and fate, relentless, traps them in a game from which they cannot escape."