Darkness descended over the Musical Arts Center stage as the house lights went down for the dress rehearsal. A red light cut through this darkness, projecting the title of the first Russian opera to ...
If you cross the traditional EUGENE ONEGIN by Tchaikovsky (great even when overfilled with drama and, yes, music music music, with Konstantin Shilovsky’s co-libretto) with a touch of Ken Russell’s ...
And now a group of students from the School of Music will bring the show to Ann Arbor. Like any great Russian play of the late 19th century, “Eugene Onegin” is a tale of unrequited passions and ...
It might be hard to imagine how a 19th-century Russian opera can be timely in 2017, but for the director of this Spoleto Festival production, highlighting progressive themes and feminist characters ...
When Sergei Prokofiev wrote incidental music to “Eugene Onegin,” he created beautiful, arching melodies that suited the leading lady’s romantic leanings and the ominous fate of the characters. A flute ...
If you go to performances at the Ohio Theatre, you are likely to hear the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky pretty regularly. Not only is the Russian composer a favorite of Columbus Symphony Music ...
Past the policeman and military guard keeping watch over the snow-flanked, beige-brick monolith and down the basement stairs, Simon Morrison discovered a faded, brittle manuscript that had languished ...
She came and she gave without taking, but he sent her away, and boy, does he regret it: Barry Manilow could have stolen the plot of “Mandy” from Tchaikovsky’s 1879 opera “Eugene Onegin.” Seattle Opera ...
After the tribulations of the pandemic the Union Avenue Opera returns to its lovely home. Here, in the nave of the Union Avenue Christian Church, the company presents first-class opera up-close and ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Saturday night, 10 days after its 25th birthday, Los Angeles Opera ...
National Theatre Brno's Eugene Onegin at the Hong Kong Arts Festival centred on Tatyana and featured lush music and a ...
Eugene Onegin is an opera composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto, organised by the composer himself, very closely follows certain passages in Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse, retaining ...