Hvorostovsky & Vargas - Eugene Onegin - Duel Scene

[suicidefairie]

oh, I see, victorian senses of honor becoming homosexuality, that's simple and so funny... xD

[radekpsk]

beware of the violas!

[kkm3000]

take you filth someplace else!! haha, you suck donkeyass!!

[balkanjiq]

fabrizzzio48 , you could be more boring! :)

[leftofmonalisa]

FREAKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

i'm in a production of this right now, and ours is pretty cool, but nothing as awesome as this!!!

[MARISOLDELMONACO]

Extraordinaria escena, hermosas voces.

Vargas hace una magnifica interpretacion de Lensky. Dmitri unico en el rol de Onegin. Amo a este extraordinario Baritono.

voz, con hermosa emicion y tecnica segura. y es tan atractivo que tiene mucho impacto en escena.

[trombo8]

one of the best recordings ever of onegin

hvorostovsky vargas and fleming just a great cast

[Ankhsnammon]

I can imagine dmitri,after this scene,searching in dispair for a bobcat...for to pick up Vargas from the floor!!Or maybe for a crane!Hahaha!!!

ankhsnammon

[babajaga39]

guys and gals! friendship is based on love, but not sexuality. they are not real friends that is what onegin vcan see, but he has a loyalty to a pal for lensky. love he cannot find even in tatyana, as she oprefers to remain a social star beside her hus, and onegin has to admit, that he fell in love with a dream, not a real woman. something what happened to pushkin and he realized it with his wife too late .

[Jacobitess]

A social star? No, that's what her sister wanted--at least in the opera. I cannot read the poem in the original language, so I won't take issue with you there, but Tatiana remained with her husband, because it was the right thing to do. She is an excellent woman, and her ability to stay true to actions, as well as her passions, is what makes her so heroic.

[babajaga39]

In true love this social status means nothing. For Tatiana the social stardom was more important than her love for Onegine. This way she did the right thing to do denying him. And Onegine had to understand that she wasn't the woman who loves him, and who he loved really. It was an illusion, and finally he had to face the he was always alone.

[ugolinifu]

I think Dimitry and Ramon are both great! Ramon´s acting is consecuent and simple, but his voice is very moving. I prefer like that as overacting as Villazón and Company.

[Pepepecas68]

a guy that finally understands acting in opera!! Villazon is so overacted ALL the time! always same pathetic gestures, looking as note dame hunchback...Vargas!!simple..al­most underline..but the singing! that other mexican doesnt have half of what Vargas has! only publicity from a very expensive PR manager!

[darewolf]

I saw this on the large screen in the theater.

It was great.

[frenchyfrench]

As usual Vargas is so musical, what a great artist.

[Ankhsnammon]

Well...I think.....talking now about the argument of "E.Onegin".I considere this opera like a study about homosexuality.A very delicate study,indeed!

Lenski let himself to be killed by Onegin...because the true object of his love was the lecherous Russian dandy!!!

Olga was an excuse...

Onegin feels the need of to make Lenski only for him....

Please,tell me your oppinions about this!

Ankhsnammon

[seligster125]

Some would agree with you about homosexual themes inthe opera (Tchaikovsky was gay) and Pushkin's novel, but they usually flip things around. Onegin, who tries to hide his homosexuality in womanising, is smitten by Lenskii & realising he has no hope, taunts him at the ball, hence the duel. There's a production in Munich based on this, including attractive, shirtless dancing cowboys taunting Onegin. I think it's all very far-fetched. Dmitri is rather hot here, tho. Perhaps you're right.

[Ankhsnammon]

Yes,indeed,sir...or milady!

homosexuality is a recurrent theme in opera.See,for example,the don carlos-posa relationship...

Ankhsnammon(Nina)

[Jacobitess]

Possible, I suppose, as Tchaikovsky's motivation. Yet, I really detest the idea that just because two men are devoted to and love one another, that makes the attachment sexual. Homosexuality thwarts the purpose of the reproductive organs by definition, and as man is both matter and spirit, denies his true end and destiny. Ergo, this idea that pretentions to loving the opposite sex is a lie is, I think, the real sham.

[Ankhsnammon]

I was talking about "homosexuality" in the sense of absolute love..not like a sodomitic relationship.

I ever have thought in a souls' communion...in a self-odentification that Lensky does(unconsciously) with Onegin,and vice versa.

Really,I never have thought in a low wildenss of their instincts.

Ankhsnammon

[smartsteve]

Lemeshev was Lesky himself!

[Ankhsnammon]

Dark,simple,minimal...like death!BRAVO,VARGAS!!!!BRAVO,MI­THRA!!!!

[skyzareblue]

Thank you so much for posting this! :)

[MadamHenriot]

It was very dark at the Met. It was difficult to see anything, but the shadows. Excellent singing and acting, Vargas tried his best musically, but he needed to loosen up a bit. Lensky should be very lyrical yet crazy in his own way. Listen to Lemeshev for ideal Lensky

[ywawa]

I totally agree with you. I was actually disappointed by Vargas' Lensky. He was a bit stiff in his acting. "Kuda, kuda" could be a lot more affecting.

[Ankhsnammon]

and,please!!!listen to Fritz wunderlich!!!A TRUE Lensky in all senses!!!

Ankhsnammon