Word: onegin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ROSALIND ELIAS, 25, a dark-eyed mezzo-soprano, is slender enough to play the boy Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, provocative enough to goad her stage lovers convincingly to swordplay, as she did as Olga in Eugene Onegin. A Lebanese-American born in Lowell, Mass., she began singing the Metropolitan's smallest roles four years ago, rose to starring parts through a combination of good looks (she is the Met's youngest, prettiest leading singer) and a warm, full-timbered voice. Her latest success: Erika in Samuel Barber's Vanessa (TIME, Jan. 27). Although a good...
...seasonal curtain raiser was its first production in 36 years of Tchaikovsky's faded period piece, Eugene Onegin. At the end of the second act, the character known as Lenski sings one of the most meltingly popular tenor arias in Russian opera ("Oh where have flown my days of springtime?"), turns to face Onegin in a duel and is promptly shot dead. At the Met last week, Tenor Richard Tucker, as Lenski, was at the top of his luminous form; Baritone George London, etched against a handsomely stark stage set, was magnificently arrogant as Onegin. The only trouble...
...rest of the opera missed fire, too. Although crammed with some of Tchaikovsky's most melodious music and adapted from Pushkin's powerfully plotted poem, the opera never came off as a music drama. Despite the Met's handsome and expensive staging, the new production of Onegin was little more than a pleasant opening-night showcase for some attractive singing...
...despite a big deficit, was out to win new fans by playing in movie houses, churches, synagogues and high-school auditoriums (one concert will be sponsored by the Katz Drug Co.; admittance: a cash-register receipt). Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera opens this week with Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, while in Fergus Falls, Minn. (pop. 14,000) a bravura rendering of Norwegian folk songs was given by a 70-voice male chorus, and 300 citizens were studying Handel's Messiah for a Christmas performance...
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater; Westminster, 3 LPs). Pushkin's sentimental tale of a St. Petersburg blade and his Unbeloved, given a skilled and rousing reading by Russia's leading opera group. The score displays Tchaikovsky at the top of his meltingly melancholy form. Soprano Galina Vishnevskaya is particularly fine as the lofty-souled heroine whose real-life prototype became Tchaikovsky's wife in a marriage that almost drove him to suicide...