Who wrote the opera The Queen of Spades?
The Queen of Spades (opera) is our life? A game!") a quote from Act 3 of the opera, became a proverb in Russian. "What? Where? When?", a trivia game and one of the most popular TV-shows in Russia and former Soviet countries, starts with a musical quotation from the opera, Herman singing the phrase "Life is but a game." The Queen of Spades (opera) The Queen of Spades, Op. 68 (, "Pikovaya dama", ) is an opera in 3 acts (7 scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on a short story of the same name
The Queen of Spades (story) paper and writing a small story within the larger story of "The Queen of Spades". A second example is when Tomsky and his grandmother talk about traditional plot lines within a Russian novel, of which his grandmother denies the existence. Pushkin's story has been adapted numerous times into multiple mediums. These include: The story has also been adapted for radio, including: The Queen of Spades (story) The Queen of Spades (; translit. "Pikovaya dama") is a short story with supernatural elements by Alexander Pushkin about human avarice. Pushkin wrote the story in autumn 1833 in Boldino and it was first