Oper in 3 Akten-Libretto. Tschaikowsky Pi

Based on a short story by Pushkin fashioned into a libretto by the composer's brother ?The Queen of Spades? was written in just five months. The story is set in eighteenth-century St. Petersburg and focuses on the young officerGherman who confides to his gambler friend Tomsky his love for a young woman. Later as the two congratulate Prince Yeletsky on his recent engagement the elderly Countess…