From Poetry to Opera: Pushkin And Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin in A Holistic Accordance
The present article examines Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin to demonstrate how a holistic approach can deepen the performance of opera; the approach integrates the composer’s dramaturgical strategies, the literary source, and critical scholarship into a unified interpretive framework. The discussion focuses on Onegin’s rejection aria and establishes that Belinsky’s characterisation of Onegin as an “involuntary egoist” […]
