Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin, based on the Pushkin novel, is the story of Tatyana Larina, and the tragic outcome of her love for the dashing but emotionally immature Eugene Onegin. Tatyana is not the only one to suffer the effects of Onegin’s carelessness. Having rejected Tatyana, Onegin flirts with her sister Olga, the fiancée of his best friend Lensky, and is challenged by the furious Lensky to fight a duel. He kills Lensky, just as he earlier destroyed Tatyana’s hopes. Lensky’s Aria, or “Kuda, Kuda vy udalilis” (“Where, where have you gone”) is sung on the morning of the duel, as he meditates on what will happen to him, with a premonition of his death.Notes by Gavin Plumley
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Lensky's Aria from Eugene Onegin Play
Recorded on 07/12/2017, uploaded on 06/27/2018
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Peter Tchaikovsky, transcribed by Leopold Auer
Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin, based on the Pushkin novel, is the story of Tatyana Larina, and the tragic outcome of her love for the dashing but emotionally immature Eugene Onegin. Tatyana is not the only one to suffer the effects of Onegin’s carelessness. Having rejected Tatyana, Onegin flirts with her sister Olga, the fiancée of his best friend Lensky, and is challenged by the furious Lensky to fight a duel. He kills Lensky, just as he earlier destroyed Tatyana’s hopes. Lensky’s Aria, or “Kuda, Kuda vy udalilis” (“Where, where have you gone”) is sung on the morning of the duel, as he meditates on what will happen to him, with a premonition of his death. Notes by Gavin Plumley
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