Eugene Onegin is an opera composed by Tchaikovsky. One of its best performances was maintained in 1983. The opera was played in three acts, but its plot required more scene changes, which attracted my attention greatly.
As the first act started, the audience and the viewers could see only a house and two benches in front of it. This limitation made me wonder how everything is going to change because the stage property looked rather massive and difficult to move. As it turned out, the plot was divided into several parts so that there was no necessity to alter the location of the characters often. I was agreeably surprised as I saw that the opera was not just posed during these moments. When the scene was over, and the curtain was drawn, musicians did not stop playing. Background music that supported the parts would come to the fore smoothly and attract the attention of the audience till the moment a new scene was ready and the curtain was drawn again. Such an approach appealed to me greatly. I believe it made the audience value the musicians more, as some people could underestimate their contribution, which is enormous. It made the viewing pleasant and uninterrupted.
Still, sometimes I was confused and could not understand what was happening on the stage. For example, when the main characters were dancing, and the choir discussed their relationship, Tanya ran away. At first, I thought that they played the role of gossip women, but then Tanya should not have been able to hear them. So were they singing about her thoughts? I believe that his opera follows the original text but would like to find out how it changed. Were there some plot alterations made during the adaptation?