Beginning November 4th, the Connecticut Lyric Opera and Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra will collaborate for the first time this 2016-17 season to stage Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s famous Russian opera “Eugene Onegin.” This fully-staged production will be performed in the original Russian language, with projected English supertitles so the audience can follow […]
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Eugene Onegin is an 1879 operatic masterpiece of Russia’s foremost composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and one of the best exaxmples of lyric opera. The story concerns a selfish hero (Onegin) who lives to regret his blasé rejection of a young woman’s love, and his careless incitement of a fatal duel […]
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Special to Town Times by Larry Kellum Verdi’s dark, but ever so beloved “Rigoletto” closed the CT Lyric Opera/CT Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra’s 2015-16 season on April 22 when it premiered at New Britain’s Trinity-on-Main. The production will also appear on May 1 at Hartford’s Infinity Hall and culminate at […]
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