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1. In Pyotr Iliych Tchaikovsky's 'Eugene Onegin' we have a not uncommon initial situation of two daughters of rich landowners being bored to death at the beginning of the story. Things change when their neighbour Lensky turns up with a friend of his, a young man from the town that may qualify as the Russian cultural equivalent for Paris:__________
2. In Eugene Onegin Olga finds happiness with her neighbour the poet Lensky, but Tatyana gets a negative response from Lensky's friend Onegin. Things explode when Onegin kills Lensky in a duel. What had happened?
3. After killing his friend Lensky in a silly duel Onegin has to leave Russia. When he can return again, Tatyana is married and has become the Princess Gremina. Exile has taught Onegin that he does love Tatyana. How does she respond to his changed feelings?
4. Just as in 2 other operas of his ('Mazepa' and 'the Queen of Spades'), Tchaikovsky found the plot of 'Eugene Onegin' in the works of : _______________
5. In 'the Queen of Spades' Prince Eletzky wants to marry Liza, the adoptive daughter of a rich old gambling-addicted countess.Alas for him she is love with somebody else, a young officer called Herman. Herman's chances get a severe blow when he involuntarily causes the death of the countess. What happens?
6. After her death, the Countess seems to pursue Herman with her 'revenge'. Suddenly all Herman's good luck is over and he loses both Lisa and all the money he had collected by gambling. What concrete events bring him down?
7. Which of these characters runs a brothel in one of Igor Stravinsky's operas?
8. Which of these works of art was the source of inspiration for one of Stravinsky's Operas?
9. Few composers have written such brilliant musical fairy tales as Rimsky Korsakov. Apart from a composition such as 'Scheherazade', Rimsky-Korsakov also wrote the fantastic opera 'Sadko'. In it a man visits the submarine realm of the 'Emperor of the Sea', whose daughter Wolchowa falls in love with him. Into what does she have to change to be able to bring him back to his old town of Novgorod ?
10. Rimsky Korsakov got in trouble with the Russian authorities when he wrote an opera in which a foolish Russian Czar is cheated by an astrologer in searching a magic animal that he later will have to hand over to the astrologer in exchange for a very seductive but totally unreliable woman. The pretty woman ultimately lets the Czar down and goes and lives with the astrologer. What was the magic creature that originally was meant to protect the Czar from all danger?
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