Karen Skinazi, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Literature and Culture and the director of Liberal Arts at the University of ...

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It would be hard to find an antihero more anti than Eugene Onegin. The protagonist of Alexander Pushkin’s long verse novel of 1833 is a wrecker of lives. Charismatically handsome yet arrogant, cynical ...

The splendid orchestra and soloists from the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg made a very special date with the Royal Opera, ...

“Iolanta” shared its premiere, in December of 1892, with a ballet you may have heard of, “The Nutcracker.” Of Tchaikovsky’s music, that score’s only competitor as a hatcher of earworms is “The 1812 ...

Scottish Opera’s annual tour of small theatres and community centres with four singers and a piano is one of the company’s defining missions.

The audience is transported to 1820s imperial Russia – the setting of Alexander Pushkin’s acclaimed novel in verse Eugene Onegin, on which the ballet is based – through the opulent, naturalistic set ...

His choice to anchor the programme with Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons was uncommon, as the set of twelve character pieces – so far removed from the bombast and flamboyance often present in his larger ...

Alexander Pushkin’s 19th-century verse novel Eugene Onegin is a tale of male desire, jealousy and violence. It inspired the eponymous Tchaikovsky opera, the 1999 film Onegin starring Ralph ...

until a real-life Mr Rochester stalks into her quiet country life in the imposing shape of Reece Clarke’s leather-coated Eugene Onegin. Nuñez practically levitates as she is drawn to him in ...