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Met Live: Eugene Onegin Encore
Saturday, Jul 28, 2018 12:55 PM
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Admission Student - $0.00
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Featuring
an introduction by F. Paul Driscoll, Editor of "Opera News". Eugene Onegin
Op. 24, is an opera ("lyrical scenes") in 3 acts (7 scenes), 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 much of his poetry. Tchaikovsky's friend Konstantin Shilovsky
contributed M. Triquet's verses in Act 2, Scene 1, while Tchaikovsky himself
arranged the text for Lensky's arioso in Act 1, Scene 1, and almost all of
Prince Gremin's aria in Act 3, Scene 1. Eugene
Onegin is a well-known example of lyric opera, to which Tchaikovsky added music
of a dramatic nature. The story concerns a selfish hero who lives to regret his
blasé rejection of a young woman's love and his careless incitement of a fatal
duel with his best friend. The
opera was first performed in Moscow in 1879. There are several recordings of
it, and it is regularly performed. The work's title refers to the protagonist.
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