Shalyapin Festival, first night: in the hall — VIPs, on the stage — Petersburg society

International Opera Festival named after Fyodor Shalyapin opened on 1 February. The premiere play was Pyotr Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades directed by Yury Aleksandrov.


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