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By Patience Gray

Published 1986

  • About
. . . singing in chorus as directed
on orders which of course presume
that thievish mouths cannot consume
their masters’ berries undetected
so long as they’re employed in song . . .

Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

Late in life Madame Oda Slobodskaya – the supreme exponent of Tatyana’s role – gave a lecture at the Guildhall School of Music on Eugene Onegin. She began by outlining the characters in Tchaikovsky’s opera and then proceeded to describe the scenes with the help of extracts on tape operated by two technicians.

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