
Iconic Female Characters from Russian Operas
On the 8th of March we celebrate the International Women's Day, so we decided to share just a few iconic female characters from Russian operas. Tatyana and Olga from Tchaikovsky's “Eugene Onegin" (Soprano and Mezzo-Soprano / Contralto) Tatyana and Onegin, Olga and Lensky are probably the most well-known Russian opera characters. The opera is based on the novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin and in the opera Tchaikovsky stays very close to the original text. However, while the