Word: onegin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some ideas from Broadway and Hollywood, including pretty girls in the chorus and the use of screen projections for scenery. The Met has snapped up ten of his singers, including Dorothy Kirsten, Regina Resnik, Polyna Stoska. His performances of off-beat operas like Ariadne auf Naxos, and Eugen Onegin play to near-capacity audiences...
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (soloists, orchestra and chorus of the Moscow State Theater; Disc, two albums, 34 sides). Recorded in Russia, sung in near-hysterical Russian style. Performance: good...
...Yorkers, who are used to a rich musical diet, were not noticeably impressed by the bill-of-fare. Yet on one night last week Manhattan musicgoers, if they liked opera, had a choice of Madama Butterfly at the Met or Eugen Onegin at the City Center in its first New York performance in eleven years. If they wanted symphony, they could hear their own Philharmonic-with Violinist Mischa Elman-at Carnegie Hall, or hear Serge Koussevitsky's famed Boston Symphony, playing an "overflow" concert, one of four performances the Bostonians played in New York last week...
Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from Three Operas (Soloists, orchestra and chorus of the Moscow State Theater of the U.S.S.R.; Disc, 6 sides). Powerful rumblings by Soviet baritones and bassos, and less spectacular arias by women singers, from Pique Dame, lolanthe and Eugene Onegin. Performance: good. Recording: poor...
Died. Sigrid Onegin, 52, famed contralto; in Lugano, Switzerland. Born in Stockholm, of German and Huguenot extraction, the statuesque diva was a U.S. opera and concert favorite from...