opera notebook

some operas I have seen on video


Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin (1879)
Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam, 2011

Tableau with Cosmonauts
Tableau with Cosmonauts

A "flashback" concept where the older selves of Onegin and Tatiana continually observe and reflect on the folly of their younger selves. Various cosmonauts, bears, Soviet Olympic athletes, etc., are less easy to explain.

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