OPERA REVIEW: The Queen of Spades
... The Queen of Spades Cardiff/Touring Imaginative, innovative, determined to be controversial -- that is this new Welsh National Opera production. The suicidal Liza, rather than jumping into the river, asphyxi ates herself with a plastic bag. The Countess is frightened to death, literally, while taking a bath. Herman's nightmare occurs in a vertical bed from which a huge skeleton emerges to ...