The Gambler is a novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a youngish tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian civil servant. Fyodor Dostoevsky. ...
The family vacations abroad in Germany, where the narrator accumulates wild success and loss at the roulette tables. Roulette is a casino and gambling game (Roulette is a French word meaning small wheel). A croupier turns a round roulette wheel which has 37 or 38 separately numbered pockets in which a ball must land. ...
The Gambler is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General.
The Gambler chronicles a period of time spent in a spa town in Germany - (although not directly mentioned, this refers to the town of Baden-Baden) in the mid-19th century.
The novella reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book.
This adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novella by the 26-year-old Prokofiev is one of the most thrilling, colorful and rousing operas of the early 20th century.
The Gambler is a non-stop scherzo and the Met Orchestra maintained energy throughout; when Prokofiev does offer a moment of repose, the orchestra breathes with him, all thanks to Gergiev.
As Alexei, Vladimir Galouzine was fearless, assaying the long, loud and high role with all the neurosis and poise required; Olga Guryakova was appropriately desperate and sexy in the role of Alexei's adored Polina.
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