Well, “extreme” is such an, oh, how shall I put it… extreme word, my dears; really La Cieca is no more than the humble intermediary here between Mike Richter‘s CD-ROMs and you, the cher public. This time our treat from the trove is Eugene Onegin, a selection from his disc devoted to the Metropolitan Opera Record Club of the 1950s.

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Metropolitan Opera – MORC 824
Abridged and performed in English translation.

Onegin: Frank Guarrera
Tatyana: Lucine Amara
Lenski: Richard Tucker
Olga: Rosalind Elias
Madame Larina: Martha Lipton
Gremin: Giorgio Tozzi

Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos