Onegin takes audience to another time and place

From: Gloucestershire Echo, The | Date: July 10, 2007 | Copyright information

Longborough does it again. A capacity audience obviously enjoyed Richard Studer's production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, conducted with warmth and admirable pacing by Jonathan Lyness. Some of the English rhyming couplets jarred, but understanding the libretto gave the audience depth of appreciation.

The plot is simple. Young girl Tatyana falls for sophisticated man Onegin but is rejected; Onegin flirts with his best friend's girl, is challenged to a duel; best friend is killed. T...

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