"Kogda bi zhizn" from EUGENE ONEGIN – sung by Samuel Dale Johnson 2020 (Our favourites)
Channel: DeutscheOperBerlin
Date: 28/05/2020

"My heart is at odds with itself"

Many may know the situation well from their personal youth, when their own confession of love does not trigger the hoped-for reaction from the other person.

This is also what happened at the end of Act 1 of Pyotr I Tchaikovsky's EUGENE ONEGIN: the title character explains by his aria "Kogda bi zhizn“ to Tatiana, who is in love, that he feels touched, but that he honors her far more like a brother and is simply not that far along. In the further course of the opera he regrets this, but then it's too late.

Listen to baritone Samuel Dale Johnson in this aria, accompanied here by Tilman Wildt on the grand piano and introduced by dramaturge Lars Gebhardt.

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Video by Chris and the FATSOX

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