03-29-2014, 04:52 PM
LONDONER Wrote:It’s strange how the mind works. I started this thread because my mind was processing several things at the same time. I red the article on Agony Aunts and I remembered one of the famous British ones; Marjorie Proops who was once interviewed on the BBC in a programme called “Desert Island Discs†in which she had to choose the recordings that she would take with her if she were marooned on a desert island. Her last recording was the famous “Letter Scene†from Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin“.Thanks Londoner, actually reminds me that I sang and danced in Eugene Oneguine some time ago, which I really enjoyed even if the Russian was difficult to pronounce.
The aria proper begins at 1.54.
You really have to know about the opera to understand the context and if you’re interested you can read it here:
http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/opera...nopsis.htm