The Kirov's Passionate 'Eugene Onegin'

From: The Washington Post | Date: December 18, 2003| Author: Tim Page | Copyright information

It may seem odd to call an ardently romantic work -- one teeming with youthful passions, "fated" meetings with handsome strangers, and an improbable (and lethal) duel between best friends -- an opera for grown-ups. But such is Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin," a work of such finely distilled melancholy and intricately detailed emotional ambivalence that it will always make its strongest impression on those who have lived long enough to know whereof it speaks. "None but the lonely heart can know...

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