Eugene Onegin
TROM the brash luStiness of 16th | Century Padua, it\is, as they say. a far cry to provincial Russia of 1823 Pushkin’s masterpiece has been freely adapted by the BBC in an exquisite production which I heard .the other night from 2YC. It was pervaded with that characteristic, poignant melancholy which is the leitmotiv of 19th Century Russian literature, where in the good families, men are strange. ungovernable | and secret. and women live in slow. refined torment like imprisoned birds And how evocative of that buried: world are the sleigh bells, the stamping horses and the far-off sounds of a sad peasant chorus. All this may be heard in the BBC production, and I found it most moving. Onegin is played with the perfect taste and discretion which we have come to associate with that most sensi- ~~
tive of young English actors, Denholm Elliott; the other actors were equally good, but they were not named.
B.E.G.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 823, 6 May 1955, Page 11
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158Eugene Onegin New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 823, 6 May 1955, Page 11
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