Stage Design for Pique Dame

May 7 “Pique Dame” or “The Queen of Spades” is an opera by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (born on this day in 1840) that tells a story of romance, intrigue and gambling set in eighteenth-century Russia. Robert O'Hearn created this stage design for a 1965 production at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Stage Design: Pique Dame

Catalogue Status: Research in Progress
Description: Horizontal rectangle. Two grand staircases, left and right, lead down to a large columned room. Double eagle at center background. Left foreground, two female figures; right foreground, male figure.

Data Source: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Designer: Robert O'Hearn, 1921–2016
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian, 1840–1893
Client: Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York, USA

Date: 1965

Credit Line: Gift of Robert O'Hearn

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: H x W: 45.4 × 60.8 cm (17 7/8 × 23 15/16 in.)

Type: theater
Object Name: Painting
Type: Painting

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