Eugene Onegin

On Monday April 7, Dr Paul Smith gave a lively and well-researched presentation about the opera Eugene Onegin, a well-known example of lyric opera, to which Tchaikovsky added music of a dramatic nature. The story concerns a selfish hero who lives to regret his blase rejection of a young woman's love and his careless incitement of a fatal duel with his best friend. The opera was first performed in in 1879 in Moscow.