from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
In the first of two appearances this season, Glyndebourne Festival Opera perform Eugene Onegin , Tchaikovsky's three-act opera after
Pushkin. Sung in Russian.
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
London Philharmonic, conductor Andrew Davis
Actl
8.15 Superfluous Man, from Onegin to Yeltsin Historian John Klier , of University College, London, reflects on the plight of Pushkin's alienated hero in the Russia of the Tsars and the Russia of Boris Yeltsin.
8.35 Act 2
9.20 Rebuilding a Monument Professor of Russian Tony Briggs and musicologist Henry Zajaczkowski compare Eugene Onegin as novel and opera.
9.40 Act 3