A drawing of a Queen of Spades playing card that has been ripped horizontally in the middle. The top half appears with the black outline of the Queen showing up against the white card, but the bottom half shows the colours inverted, with the Queen’s white outline showing up against a black card like an x-ray.

Gothic Opera

La Dame de Pique

Name: La Dame de Pique
Start: 2026-10-29T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-11-01T17:10:00+00:00

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Thu 29 Oct - Sun 1 Nov 2026

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This Halloween, a society on the brink crumbles into grime, decay and dissolution.

Witty, gritty opera La Dame de Pique (The Queen of Spades) by Fromental Halévy premiered in 1850 but has never been staged since.

Featuring a cast of exciting emerging singers and a chamber orchestra, this operatic game of power will transport you to the dying days of the Ancien Régime in France.

Loosely based on the Pushkin story of the same name, Halévy’s La Dame de Pique pre-dates Tchaikovsky’s better-known opera adaptation by forty years.

In a story perfect for the spooky season, a shifting web of ambition, strategy, and survival is played out across every level of society… but the dealer always wins.

“Once again, they have pulled off a triumph” ★★★★★ Bachtrack

“Perfectly eerie… I’d certainly keep Halloween 2026 free for a suitably spooky evening of music” ★★★★★ The Stage

*Reviews for Die Rheinnixen