Eugene Onegin: From Page to Stage

Helena Goscilo will discuss the nature of opera, its Russian variant, and the transformation of Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse (1823-31) into Pyotr Tchaikovsky's world-renowned opera Eugene Onegin (1878). Helena Goscilo is UCIS Research Professor of Slavic at the University of Pittsburgh. She has authored and edited more than a dozen volumes, most recently Russian Culture in the 1990s, a special issue of Studies in 20th Century Literature (2000) and Encyclopedia of Russian Culture (2007).