The first sign that the eponymous Russian aristocrat in Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky’s opera “Eugene Onegin” is something less than a quality guy is his tossed-off remark to a would-be lover, Tatyana, ...
When a young Russian singer suggested to Tchaikovsky in 1877 that he compose an opera based on Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin’s famous novel-in-verse, he dismissed it as a “crazy” idea. “Then, ...