| | washingtonpost.com: The Kirov's Passionate 'Eugene Onegin' |
 | | But such is Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin," a work of such finely distilled melancholy and intricately detailed emotional ambivalence that it will always make its strongest impression on those who have lived long enough to know whereof it speaks. |
 | | "None but the lonely heart can know my sadness," run the lyrics of Tchaikovsky's best-known song; similarly, none but the experienced heart -- a heart that has known not only deep joys and mad sorrows but also the less grand states of frailty, insufficiency and resigned acceptance -- can truly know "Onegin." |
 | | The Kirov Opera and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater began its week-long residency at the Kennedy Center Opera House with a performance of "Eugene Onegin" on Tuesday night, under the direction of Valery Gergiev. |
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