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Pikovaya dama (The Queen of Spades) - 1890

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 - 1893

Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky based on a story by Alexander Pushkin

First performance at Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg on 19 December 1890

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In a letter to his brother and librettist the composer said that "the opera is a masterpiece".

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