#directors focus more on the guns than the emotions that led them to a gunpoint

[lenskij]

Onegin is an opera where nothing happens (Tchaikovsky's words. In fact, he insisted on it not being an opera, but lyrical scenes). And that is true - there is no action in the plot. It's all about feelings! And those feelings are intense as conveyed by the music. That's why I get hangups about Onegin being done 'wrong', because it's so easy to undermine what the music is telling by doing something else.

#and that's why the duel scene gets often messed up #directors focus more on the guns than the emotions that led them to a gunpoint #liz talks #eugene onegin #opera