Pique Dame at Jarvis

Jarvis Conservatory presents the opera film Pique Dame on Saturday, June 28, at 1:30 p.m.  Director Benedict Andrews plunges Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame at the Bavarian State Opera into a cinematic film noir aesthetic, in which the characters regularly seem to vanish into shadow and mystery.  Brandon Jovanovich “plays a credibly broken anti-hero as Hermann” (Münchner Merkur) and Asmik Grigorian as Lisa once again steals the show with her unerring dramatic and vocal skills.  Conductor Aziz Shokhakimov gives a convincing debut at the podium of the state orchestra, managing a “dramatically stirring, propulsive interpretation” (FAZ). Tickets are $20

Jarvis Conservatory, 1711 Main St., Napa com