Timeline Friday 19 December 1890

Events on Friday 19 December 1890 1

• 1890 Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades premieres Opera based on Pushkin opens at the Mariinsky Theatre Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades, based on a story by Alexander Pushkin, premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. The opera became one of Tchaikovsky's most celebrated works and a staple of the Russian operatic repertoire. It was composed in collaboration with his brother Modest, who wrote the libretto.