#russian opera

[vintage-russia]

Costume design for Lily of the Valley for the opera "Snegurochka" (1881)

Mikhail Klodt (1835-1914)

[leonardoeatscarrots]

Everyone I know says Dmitri has such a distinctive smile...

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[crazycatsiren]

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (RIP) and Renée Fleming as Onegin and Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Metropolitan Opera 2007.

[atticlouse]

gender is stored in the young, tragically killed poet and his dramatic reflections on life & love

[lajeunefilleenfleurs]

Я тогда моложе,

Я лучше, кажется, была!

[...]

Не правда ль, вам была не новость

Смиренной девочки любовь?

[...]

Тогда, не правда ли, в пустыне.

Вдали от суетной молви,

Я вам не нравилась;

This scene ...

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

thank the universe for not having too much homework tonight so I can watch both The Gambler and Eugene Onegin (which I still have yet to liveblog that production though I have seen it though it’s been...nearly a year??? last I watched it was I think the VERY FIRST week of Met streams)

[eriksangel666]

TIL there is a Russian Opera entitled the Nose where a man loses his nose and tries to get it back. Makes me wonder if seeing this opera triggered Erik

[hunchbacked-one-eyed-lame]

Esmeralda (2020 production)

Music and Libretto by Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky (1813 -1869)

Directed by Natalia Chernikova and Darya Modzalevskaya