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	The Queen of Spades (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Queen of Spades (Пиковая дама in Russian, Pikovaya dama in transliteration) is an opera in three acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on a short story by the poet Aleksandr Pushkin.
		In the opera, Herman is an army officer who manipulates the naive Lisa, the granddaughter of a countess known as the Queen of Spades.
		Instead of the expected ace, Herman is dealt the queen of spades.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Queen_of_Spades (1256 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Dead of Night & The Queen of Spades
		Queen of Spades is an almost as eerie but less well-known macabre tale adapted from a Russian novella.
		The Queen of Spades playing card is identified as the most unlucky in the deck, and the rest of the film shows us why.
		Queen of Spades is accompanied by the expected still and poster gallery, that has some interesting Behind the Scenes photos, notably one with the sinister Anthony Dawson charmingly attending Ms.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s840dead.html (3282 words)

	Queen of Spades (Met) reviews - US (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This probably explains why the performance of Tchaikovsky's "Queen of Spades" on Thursday night, the first of the season, lacked some of the dramatic flow and vivid detail that characterized this Elijah Moshinsky production when it was unveiled in 1995.
		"The Queen of Spades" is unremitting in its demands, and since its main characters are in a state of anguish a good deal of the time, the emotional charge seldom abates.
		This season's first Queen of Spades at the Met (March 18), though tentative in certain particulars (the voice of the prompter was heard in the land), showed a strongly cast, knowingly led revival.
	www.tenorissimo.com /domingo/Articles/ap031999.htm (1912 words)

	52 Plus Joker - Cards of the Month: January, 2000
		Queen of Hearts -shows the train on the 'Trestle over Glacier Gorge at Tunnel'.
		King of Spades - shows the train on a trestle with the caption 'Among the Clouds'.
		Queen of Spades - shows the train with a flatcar of early sightseers with the caption, 'Excursion Train on Porcupine Hill'
	www.52plusjoker.org /cards/cotm0001/index.htm (393 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The queen of spades represents Athena, the Greek goddess of war.
		A ten of spades, jack of spades, king of spades, ace of spades and a three of hearts.
		The queen of diamonds is Rachel, wife of Jacob and mother of the twelve sons who founded the twelve tribes of Israel.
	www.bigcasinolist.com /columns/13.htm (619 words)

	P. Tchaikovsky "The Queen of Spades" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Lithuanian director Gintaras Varnas noted that in his “The Queen of Spades” he was captured by the presence of Dostoyevsky.
		The manuscript of “The Queen of Spades” has not survived, therefore it is impossible to establish when the story is written by the author's own evidence.
		„The Queen of Spades” appeared for the first time in February 1834, in the second volume of the magazine “Library for Reading” published by the book seller Smirdin, and it was reprinted later with minor changes in the collection „Stories published by Alexander Pushkin”.
	www.opera.lv /pikadama/default_e.htm (5216 words)

	Review \| Pushkin and the Queen of Spades by Alice Randall
		Pushkin and the Queen of Spades by Alice Randall
		Sometimes in Pushkin and the Queen of Spades you feel as though you're looking at a painting by Jackson Pollock, or listening to a piece of a music by Chopin.
		And while the plot of the book is deeply compelling, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades also includes philosophizing and intellectualizing on a deliciously eloquent scale.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/pushkin.html (807 words)

	Reader's Guide for Pushkin and the Queen of Spades published by Houghton Mifflin Company
		Alice Randall is the author of the novels Pushkin and the Queen of Spades and The Wind Done Gone.
		A central theme of Pushkin and the Queen of Spades is the nature of motherhood.
		Another theme of Pushkin and the Queen of Spades is the relationship between high and low culture.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /readers_guides/randall_pushkin.shtml (894 words)

	The Scotsman - S2 - THEATRE REVIEW: The Queen of Spades
		Kitty Lucas as Liza in John Clifford’s adaptation of The Queen of Spades.
		PUSHKIN’S Queen of Spades is a miserable story at the best of times.
		The Queen of Spades of the title is a crazy old St Petersburg countess who claims to hold the secret of how to win boundless riches at the gambling tables, and perhaps also the secret of eternal life.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /s2.cfm?id=767552002 (537 words)

	EI > DVD > Dead of Night/The Queen of Spades (1946/50) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"The Queen of Spades" is an overlooked horror gem from the Associated British Picture Corporation.
		The driven, complex and amoral character reminded me of Harvey Keitel's performance in Ridley Scott's "The Duelists." "The Queen of Spades" is more of a character study than a horror film, but do not be dismayed, "The Queen of Spades" delivers the good in that department also.
		Again, "Queen of Spades" has a very good sound track, especially compared to that of "Dead of Night." I would give "Queen of Spades" an 8 out of 10 rating.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/dvd/deadofnightthequeenofspades.php (949 words)

	Queen Of Spades
		Queen Of Spades is about a gambling addiction told using the analogy of a woman.
		The game is played like any other you want (say, seven card stud low) but the twist is that if the queen of spades is dealt face up to anyone, the game ends.
		The way we play it is we can only let the queen kill the game three times - if we didn't put that limit on it we might be playing one hand all night.
	www.styxnet.com /styxlyrics/qos.htm (552 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Queen of Spades (Dover Thrift S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories.
		The leading story of this collection "The Queen of Spades" is celebrated as a classic example of the short story form, with a stinging twist in its tale (tail?) - but the ending is painfully obvious pages from the end.
		For this and the justly famous "Queen of Spades", a reader new to this writer will not be disappointed.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0486280543 (1054 words)

	Sunbirds.com: The Queen of Spades - Russian Lacquer item (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is taken from the short story "The Queen of Spades" by Russian master author and poet Alexander Pushkin.
		"The Queen of Spades" was written in 1834, only a few short years before Pushkin was to die in a duel over his socialite wife.
		Solodilov Yevgeniy Alexandrovich was born in 1967 in the town of Sochi situated in the Krasnodarsky territory.
	www.sunbirds.com /lacquer/box/250562 (907 words)

	Pushkin and the Queen of Spades; ISBN-10: 0618433600 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pushkin and the Queen of Spades: A Novel
		Balancing sharp-witted humor with profundity, sexiness with psychological depth, this is an exhilarating ride straight through the racially divided heart of contemporary America, which also probes the universal question of what it means to be a good mother.
		Pushkin and the Queen of Spades is a provocative, enormously entertaining novel that will change the landscape of literary fiction.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=688992 (192 words)

	\|\| Three Card Monte Explanation \|\| 3 Card Monte \|\|
		In its full form, the three card Monte is an example of a classic short con in which the outside man pretends to conspire with the mark to cheat the inside man, while in fact conspiring with the inside man to cheat the mark.
		The three card Monte game itself is very simple; a dealer places three cards face down on a table (often a cardboard box that can be quickly taken away), shows that one of the cards is the Queen of Spades, and then rearranges the cards quickly to confuse the player about which card is which.
		If the player correctly identifies the Queen of Spades, he wins an amount equal to the stake he bets; otherwise, he loses his stake.
	www.leeasher.com /three_card_monte.htm (628 words)

	Book Reviews - Pushkin and the Queen of Spades by Alice Randall
		In Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, Windsor Armstrong is a strong-willed, stubborn, successful fl woman who is a Harvard graduate, Fulbright scholar, and professor of Russian studies.
		She's also a single mother to her son, Pushkin X, named after her favorite Russian poet and Malcolm X. Pushkin, however, has no use for literature or his mother's world, but is a powerful football player about to enter the NFL.
		Windsor is initially hard to like, but as the layers of her character are peeled back, her actions become understandable and sympathetic.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /pushkin_and_the_queen_of_spades (240 words)

	classical music - andante - winning with the queen of spades
		For Covent Garden's public, Haitink can do no wrong - a just verdict on this occasion, for he reveled in the gut-wrenching despair, the opulent theatricality and the hallucinatory eeriness of Tchaikovsky's astonishing score as if this music were in his blood.
		This Dutch conductor may not have Gergiev's instinctive Russian temperament, but his subtler, more inward and brooding interpretation, allied to his scrupulous musicianship, brought The Queen of Spades to musical life with unerring momentum.
		At 60, Dame Josephine Barstow is close to retirement, but her individual soprano was surprisingly fruity-toned and Russian-sounding in the lower-register as the Old Countess, even though director Zambello allowed her to reprise her acclaimed impersonation of the aging Queen Elizabeth I in Britten's Gloriana.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=10516&highlight=1&highlightterms=&lstKeywords= (583 words)

	The Queen of Spades
		A queen came up to the right, an ace to the left.
		Hermann shuddered: true enough, instead of an ace he held the queen of spades.
		At that moment it seemed to him that the queen of spades puckered up her eye and smiled mockingly.
	russian.arizona.edu /courses/pushkin/queen6.htm (1191 words)

	Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL): Stage director plays winning hand with 'The Queen of Spades'.(Time Out!)@ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Peter Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades" is finally in the cards for Lyric Opera of Chicago.
		And one person who couldn't be happier is Graham Vick, the veteran British stage director, who is a staunch advocate of this powerful, romantic Russian opera.
		Vick, whose previous credits at Lyric are Igor Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress" in the 1994-95 season and Luciano Berio's "In re in ascolto" in 1996-97, is bringing "The Queen of Spades" ("Pique Dame") here in collaboration with Sir Andrew Davis, who makes his Lyric Opera debut as music director with these performances.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:65656421&refid=holomed_1 (239 words)

	The Queen of Spades - Cecilia Bartoli - New York Magazine Classical Music Review
		After all, it was the fifth performance this season of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades with Plácido Domingo, and most critics had already weighed in on opening night.
		Not so long ago, a singer of Pieczonka’s quality would have been snapped up by an important record company, showcased in recitals and complete operas, heavily promoted, and ready to make a Met debut that would have had everyone (instead of a few insiders) eager to hear her.
		In all other respects, the Met’s Queen of Spades production retains its distinctive visual qualities in the canny mix of czarist realism and supernatural spookiness that characterizes Elijah Moshinsky’s stage direction and Mark Thompson’s brooding sets, cunningly lit by Paul Pyant.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/n_9999 (812 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Pushkin and the Queen of Spades
		Windsor Armstrong, the protagonist of Alice Randall's stellar sophomore novel Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, has a problem.
		Her son, star football player Pushkin X, is marrying a Russian lap dancer, and it's driving her crazy.
		Who do you really need to see?" Pushkin and the Queen of Spades is a thought-provoking work from a writer with a unique view of the world.
	www.bookpage.com /0405bp/fiction/pushkin.html (302 words)

	"The Queen of Spades"
		The Metropolitan Opera's revival of Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades is an anomaly, the sort of international all-star affair that only the Met can seem to assemble these days.
		Once again Placido Domingo stretches himself by adding Ghermann to his huge repertory, singing the words (with the aid of a very loud prompter) in what I am told is more than acceptable Russian.
		The Queen of Spades has waited a century to be certified a masterpiece of late-Romantic opera, and the current Met revival is good enough to make one wonder why it took so long.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/275 (518 words)

	Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades
		On the women's naked bodies are spade playing cards.
		Cameo appearances by such California worthies as Ina Coolbrith and Joaquin Miller add to the novel's historical richness.
		Intelligent, gripping, and often quite funny, Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades will satisfy any reader who craves adventure, mystery, romance, and fine writing.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8273.html (400 words)

	International Herald Tribune: Danish Opera's Rocky Tchaikovsky'The Queen of Spades' Never Emerges@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Especially since this theater has lately been on the rise, his initial staging since taking control has met with considerable interest.
		With ''The Queen of Spades,'' Holten chose an opera very much in vogue.
		The international opera season is barely under way, but new productions of Tchaikovsky's masterful study in character have already been mounted in Chicago and at the Welsh National Opera.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:35919808&refid=holomed_1 (220 words)

	Spades - Free spades downloads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When more than 2 people are playing, the number of spades to collect is To increase the number of spades, or to allow more than 5 people to play,
		Supplies custom built tree spades; skid steer, loader, truck, excavator and custom built trailer mounts.
		Spades Park Library is one of the two remaining Carnegie libraries in the IMCPL system.
	pc-anywhere.yournetport.com /ynpt/pc-anywhere-spades.htm (195 words)

	Pikovaya dama (1916) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was clearly giving a great deal of thought to how to bring out the best in this new technology.
		'The Queen of Spades' has some nice double-exposure effects, particularly at the end, as an unshaven, ragged Germann plays with invisible cards in his cell in the insane asylum.
		The ghost of the Countess is very effective here, unlike in its first appearance, where it was so clearly solid it cast shadows.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0007183 (459 words)

	Menace II Russian Society - New York Times
		In ''Pushkin and the Queen of Spades,'' Randall uses the life and works of Alexander Pushkin to introduce us to Windsor Armstrong, a fl, Harvard-educated professor of Afro-Russian literature at Vanderbilt.
		Windsor is unhinged by the news that her son, a professional football player named Pushkin X, plans to marry a Russian lap dancer named Tanya.
		It's an interesting question, and it's too bad that ''Pushkin and the Queen of Spades'' is ill equipped to answer it.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E7DA1F3CF930A15756C0A9629C8B63 (611 words)

	Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades / Samosud, et al - SHOP.COM
		Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades / Samosud, et al - SHOP.COM
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	Sheet Music Plus - The Queen of Spades, Op. 68
		Sheet Music Plus - The Queen of Spades, Op.
		One of Tchaikovsky"s most popular operas, this work!based on a melodramatic tale by Aleksandr Pushkin!tells of a military officer torn between his love for a beautiful young woman and his obsession with gambling.
		First performed at St. Petersburg"s Imperial Opera in 1890, The Queen of Spades remains a favorite among audiences everywhere.
	www.sheetmusicplus.com /a/product.html?id=75920&sku=AP.6-408531 (81 words)

	The Queen of Spades - San Francisco Opera 2 - Compare Prices for Sports, Concert and Theater Tickets
		The Queen of Spades - San Francisco Opera 2 - Compare Prices for Sports, Concert and Theater Tickets
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