![]() Muraveva is an emotionally distant performer, a coldness that well served her as she dismisses Onegin from her life. Of beautiful lyric voice, and youthful allure, Mme. Petersburg soprano Evgenia Muraveva was fully realized as well. ![]() It was this scene where the Tatiana of St. The final confrontation with Tatiana was a fully realized operatic ending. His opening scenes were less persuasive, his aloof posturing unconvincing, but he gained authority as the opera progressed, finding the appropriate swagger in Tatiana’s Act II name day ball, then portraying a moving sympathy for his dead friend Lensky. Bintner brought his youth, and his sincerity to the role, easily passing for the twenty-six years he claims in his frantic pleas to Tatiana in the final scene of the opera. ![]() It cut loose with maximum, infectious gusto for Tchaikovsky’s third act polonaises, dwarfing the intimacies that so infuse this delicate masterpiece, that had so begged to be brought to life throughout the evening.Ĭanadian bass baritone Gordon Bintner, a recent house singer at the Frankfurt Opera, sang Onegin. Let it be said that the San Francisco Opera Orchestra gave a full throated response to the maestro, showing once again that it is one of the world’s fine opera orchestras. A prowess he imposed just now in San Francisco onto Tchaikovsky’s spare setting of the Pushkin novel. Greek conductor Vassilis Christopoulos came to fame at the Athens Opera with an Elektra, and then gained even more fame in Athens with a Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, operas of great orchestral prowess. Symphonic excess in a spiritless exposition of Tchaikovsky’s sacrifice of youthful love.
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