Russian figure skating news in 2024

[Wyliefan]

But one of the MOST well-known? On a level with Onegin? I don't think so. Onegin is up there with Hamlet and Jane Eyre and Ebenezer Scrooge and Anna Karenina and others who have really stood the test of time.

 

[Vagabond]

How well known are Jane Eyre and Ebenezer Scrooge among those whose mother tongue isn't English? How many English speakers have  read Jane Eyre or A Christmas Carol? I haven't read Eugene Onegin, but I have read both of those and Perfume and believe all three to be classics, with Perfume probably the greatest work of literature of the three.

 

[kwanfan1818]

But we’ve seen the plays/movies/ballets/operas based on those books. Onegin is extremely well known through the latter two.

I’ve never read Onegin in translation, but I remember hearing an opera discussion about how Tchaikovsky Disneyfied the story, which the speaker said was much more cynical and dark about most of the characters, and the Onegin was less of an outlier. Most of the cynicism in the opera is centered on Onegin, with the rest distilled in Prince Gremin’s aria (“High society sucks, and I love Tatiana for not being like it”). The ballets tend to have lots of pas de deux.

 

[Sasha'sSpins]

I was getting something like Chopin vibes from Gumennik with the broody good looks and the flowy hair on the podium! Speaking of hair, I hope he doesn't cut off the ponytail. I still miss Jason's. I used to follow a Jason's Ponytail account on old Twitter. Wonder if it's still there lol!

 

[panda42]

I was getting something like Chopin vibes from Gumennik with the broody good looks and the flowy hair on the podium! Speaking of hair, I hope he doesn't cut off the ponytail. I still miss Jason's. I used to follow a Jason's Ponytail account on old Twitter. Wonder if it's still there lol!

I didn't know that Jason ever had a Ponytail account! Gummenik is striking with the long hair and it suits his dramatic presentation style. I watched some of his old programs and almost didn't recognize him with shorter hair.