Generalprobe: Der Spieler

In the organizer's words:

A gripping work about (gambling) obsessions that overshadow an entire life: Sergei Prokofiev's The Gambler is this fascinating setting of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous novel. The opera presents a panopticon of uprooted characters who are all under the spell of the wheel of fortune in the fictional Roulettenburg: a retired general in debt, a French woman who suspects he has a fortune, a marquis who advances money to the general because he is keen on his foster daughter Polina - and on the inheritance that the general is impatiently awaiting. However, the terminally ill relative doesn't die, but turns up at the gambling table looking like a pug - and makes her own fortune. Everyone is acting in their own interests and for the good of their reputation, only the tutor Alexei has neither money nor honor to lose. Infatuated with Polina to the point of insanity, he also ends up at the gambling table and for a moment bathes in the feeling of being on top...