P.I.Tchaikovsky Herman’s Aria “Chto nasha zhizn'? Igra!”
from "The Queen of Spades" ("Pique Dame") 
 
Diction score - sheet music with IPA phonetics, word-by-word translation and grammatically correct translations
 
You can watch a VIDEO DICTION GUIDE for this aria here:
https://youtu.be/v745gbBB1FE
 
Here you can find recordings of this song by:
 
Vladimir Atlantov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKfcbNSia34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qY9udMUx_Y
 
Nikolaj Gedda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9wdKO6XcOQ
 
Vladimir Galouzine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wto3DNEg7Gw
 
Fragment from Film-opera: acting - Oleg Strizhenov, singing - Zurab Andzhaparidze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LonvlI5KrY
 
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A quick and comprehensive tutorial on Russian phonetics:
https://www.russian4singers.com/russian-diction-for-singers-1
 
Recordings of the full opera are available here:
You can listen to the full opera here:
 
Mariinsky Theatre (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3mClhOp9Z8
 
Film-opera (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16I8grKxD5w&t=22s
 
The Bolshoi Theatre (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_OEAaM-3EQ