I guess he didn't like the performance
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I'm just looking around at Chicago Classical Review, and they have a page listing the 5 best performances of 2020 (remember that year?)
Anyhow, at the bottom there are "Dishonorable Mentions:"
"Far worse was the latest installment in Lyric Opera’s ongoing stimulus program for untalented British directors. Richard Jones’ scabrous staging of The Queen of Spades wasted a stellar cast and trashed one of Tchaikovsky’s finest operas in the company’s first Pique Dame in two decades. The haunted gambler Gherman is here reduced to a spastic, grinning village idiot from the curtain and his beloved Lisa is merely a passive cringing neurotic. Jones, who was also responsible for destroying Handel’s Ariodante in 2019, reaches his nadir with the Countess’s ghostly apparition—played not for terror but for campy laughs as a giant skeleton in Gherman’s bed, which he embraces and kisses. Povero Tchaikovsky."
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