
Page to Opera Stage: The Changes Tchaikovsky Made in Adapting Pushkin’s ‘Unadaptable’ ‘Eugene Onegin’
“Page to Opera Stage” looks at stories – real-life or fiction, old and new – that have inspired operas, and the ways these narratives have been edited and dramatized to fit a new medium. This week’s installment – the first one – looks at Alexander Pushkin’s and Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.” At the age of 26, the poet, novelist, {…}