Bolshoi Ballet: Pique Dame (DVD)

The new version of “Pique Dame” is a spectacle with deep dramatic content and amazing theatrical choreography. Four characters take the spotlight: Hermann, the Countess, Lisa, and Chekalinsky. Hermann, a young man obsessed with winning a fortune by playing cards, has a principal role in the story. He is not an inveterate gambler, yet he is a social climber. Hermann learns of the Countess, who has knowledge of a magical sequence of three winning cards, and is determined to learn this secret at any price. In the end, he is driven by his growing obsession and greed to attempted murder, madness, and his eventual death.

Read the review in the October issue of the Ballet-Dance Magazine.