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mats wrote:

Sorry Romy, the broadcast was early in March, and I missed it too. Tonight I am going to the live performance. I think FMT struggled a bit with the sound this first year. Did you hear any of the Lyric broadcasts? I have been playing my Melodia vinyl with Petrova and Vishnevskaya. Had to attenuate the HF channel quite a bit, but then oh so lovely, and with a Denon 102, not so noisy actually.  I remember your complaint about roach legs in the russian vinyl :-)

Yes, I am getting WFMT  sometime, the new session of the syndication with my local FM station opens up in May and go over the summer. Go figure....

The live performance of Onegin is very good. Attendance of opera might be spotty, depending of the specific production, but it's always a very valuable event. I never miss the local production of Onegin-level opera. You see, there are only two categories of Russian operas – those that were composed on Pushkin's libretto and all other garbage. Onegin is the Pushkin’s opera and for me to hear that poetry in the way how Tchaikovsky arranged is like to get lungs ventilation…

Anyhow, have a good show and watch out those woodwinds and particularly that oboe before and within the letter scene… BTW, it is very important where you sit during Onegin as it should be very RIGHT  balance between voices, flutes, clarinets, French Horns, bassoon and horns… If you hit the right  spot and if the Chicago Lyric will do right job then it might be big thrill.

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