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MEDIA CONTACT: Judy Moore at (847)
491-4819 or jkm229@northwestern.edu
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Northwestern School of Music to Present "Eugene Onegin" Feb.
23 - 26
EVANSTON, Ill. --- A heart-wrenching work from one of opera's
masters will be performed at Northwestern University this winter,
as Northwestern continues its 2005-06 opera season with Peter
Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1879 romantic tale "Eugene Onegin."
Performances of "Eugene Onegin" will be held at 7:30
p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23; 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24; 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 25; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, at Cahn Auditorium,
600 Emerson St., on the University's Evanston campus. It will
be sung in English.
Part of the standard operatic repertoire, "Eugene Onegin" is
based on a novel-in-verse of the same name, written by Aleksandr
Pushkin in 1833. In this three-act opera, tragedy ensues when
the heartless title character coldly rejects the advances of
the passionate, young Tatiana. With music by Tchaikovsky and
libretto by Konstantin Shilovsky and Tchaikovsky, it was first
performed in 1879 at the Malyi Theatre in Moscow.
Northwestern's rendition of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece will be
directed by Noel Koran and conducted by Victor Yampolsky.
A veteran of opera as an actor, singer and director in the United
States and Europe, Koran won first-place awards from the National
Opera Association in 1998 and 1999. Koran is director of opera
for Northwestern's School of Music.
Yampolsky, a longtime School of Music faculty member, has appeared
as guest conductor throughout the United States and the world.
"Eugene Onegin" is the second production in the School
of Music's 2005-06 opera season, following Bertholt Brecht and
Kurt Weill's 1928 "The Threepenny Opera," performed
in fall 2005.
The spring 2006 production, Mozart's lively farce "Cosí fan
Tutte" will be performed in Italian with English super titles
at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 20, and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 21.
Tickets for "Eugene Onegin" are $15 for the general
public; $12 for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and
staff; and $5.50 for students.
To order tickets or for more information, call the Pick-Staiger
Ticket Office at 847-491-5441 or visit www.pickstaiger.com.
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