AZG Armenian Daily #119, 29/06/2005

Culture

HASMIK PAPIAN GIVES CONCERTS IN PARIS

Famous soprano Hasmik Papian sang in eight performances of
Tchaykovsky’s “The Queen of Spades” at Opera Bastille on May 28-June
19.

Parisian Le Monde informed that the version performed at the Opera
Bastille was the repetition of the one staged by Leo Dodin in 1999. A
number of famous Russian singers participated in the concerts in Paris,
including Vladimir Galuzin, marvelous tenor. Genady Rozhdenstvensky,
famous conductor, led the orchestra.

“The Queen of Spades ” was staged in St. Petersburg in 1890 for the
first time. It is one of the most complete pieces by Tchaykovsky. The
libretto was written by Modest Tchaykovsky. There are great changes
made in the opera based on the piece with the same name written by
Aleksander Pushkin.

By Petros Keshishian