Luiz Gazzola

Eugene Onegin is Tchaikovsky's most famous opera. It is a beloved masterpiece of Romantic music. This guide presents the libretto with a side-by-side new English translation, circumstances of composition, a history of the best singers for the roles with video clip links, trivia, musical structure, reviews of CDs and DVDs/Blu-ray discs, exclusive interviews with artists who performed the roles and a conductor, and much more. If you want to learn a wealth of information about this beautiful opera, this is the book for you.

This is Volume 2 of Opera Lively's interview series with operatic artists. Once more, both seasoned international stars and rising young or regional singers, conductors, stage directors and composers share their insights with our readers. The detailed reports of two master classes are also included. Featured in Volume 2, Juan Diego Fl rez, Jay Hunter Morris, Diana Damrau, Olga Peretyatko, Isabel Leonard, maestro Marco Armiliato, maestro Yannick N zet-S guin, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Lawrence Brownlee, Giuseppe Filianoti, contemporary composers George Benjamin and Kevin Puts, Susan Graham, Frederica von Stade, Jessica Pratt, Ildar Abdrazakov, Paul Appleby, Lisette Oropesa, Michael Spyres, directors Laurent Pelly and Francesca Zambello, and many others. Opera Journalist Luiz Gazzola, MD, PhD, the senior editor at Opera Lively Press and at the web site www.operalively.com, uses his more than three decades of experience as a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and opera lover to engage with the artists in a pleasant and conversational manner, while asking musically well-informed and intellectually challenging questions, in unusually deep interviews. Don't miss our Volume 1 with Joyce DiDonato, Anna Netrebko, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Danielle de Niese, Piotr Beczala, Thomas Hampson, Matthew Polenzani, Deborah Voigt, and 30 other artists.