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Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" is a story of strong emotion accommodating itself, painfully but with resigned acceptance, to external reality. Dreams of romantic love prove untenable, or merely ...

At first blush, Eugene Onegin looks like a total jerk. A rich 19th-century dandy, he callously rejects the girl who’s fallen for him, seduces her sister, kills her brother-in-law and then crawls back ...

One of the peskier questions in the classical music world: Does lesser-known mean lesser? In short: Is repertory obscurity deserved, or in any case earned? New recordings of seldom-heard music by one ...

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Joan of Arc occupies a special place in the hearts of New Orleanians. As one of the patron saints of France, the former mother country of Louisiana, her heroism in battle and the morale she inspired ...

Sergey Skorokhodov sings as Count Vaudemont during a dress rehearsal of the Dallas Opera’s Iolanta. Rose Baca - Staff Photographer Sergey Skorokhodov sings as Count Vaudemont during a dress rehearsal ...