![]() ![]() Onegin, a bored Saint Petersburg rake, has recently inherited an estate from his uncle. The plot of “Eugene Onegin” is relatively straightforward. ![]() It was not an immediate success – the Moscow audience knew large chunks of the book by heart, making his libretto’s adaptation seem lesser in comparison – but has earned a place in the canon for its lush score and perceptive psychological portraits. In 1879, the Russian romantic composer Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky would adapt this work into his most famous opera. It became a massive literary success in Russia, though its perceived untranslatability has made it less well-known in other countries than the prose works of Tolstoy or Dostoevsky.īy 1837, Pushkin would be dead, having died in a duel. ![]() ‘Eugene Onegin’ (or the un-anglicized, but less common Yevgeny Onegin), a novel written in “Pushkin sonnets,” would be published in eight chapters between 18. This week’s installment – the first one – looks at Alexander Pushkin’s and Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.”Īt the age of 26, the poet, novelist, and “father of Russian literature” Alexander Pushkin published the first chapter of what would become his magnum opus. “Page to Opera Stage” looks at stories – real-life or fiction, old and new – that have inspired operas, and the ways these narratives have been edited and dramatized to fit a new medium. ![]()
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