1/8

Disaster lurks not far from this sumptuous and exuberant masquerade ball. 

2/8

Doris Soffel interprets the Countess. In 1974 she had sung Polina at the Stuttgart Opera, with the great Martha Mödl in the role of the Countess.

3/8

Vladislav Sulimsky sings the role of Count Tomski, who is the first to tell protagonist Hermann the story about the Countess and her three mysterious cards.

4/8

Elena Stikhina as Lisa and Anatoli Sivko as Surin just before a daring costume change on stage.

5/8

An unsettling silhouette that forebodes nothing good...

6/8

Aigul Akhmetshina as Polina, who sings an auspicious aria at the beginning of the opera.

7/8

Arsen Soghomonyan as Herman, who is plagued by an impossible love and a traumatic past.

8/8

A fateful meeting of all the opera's protagonists, with Boris Pinkhasovich as the Prince Yeletsky, who, incidentally, does not appear in the original novella by Alexander Pushkin.