In his „Lyrical Scenes in three acts“ after Pushkins novel in verses we follow Tchaikovsky in music full of melancholy to an remote country estate, lived-in by their mother and the two sisters Olga and Tatyana, who escapes from its tristesse only in her books. When Tatyanas fiancé Lenski introduces his friend Eugene Onegin to her, and she projects all her longings onto him, a m...