Peter Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades, based on a Pushkin story of a Russian army officer with a gambling obsession, takes center stage at the Metropolitan Opera this Saturday at 1 pm on Classical 90.5.
Met Opera – Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades
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