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Tenor Bogdan Volkov was a most sensitive Lensky, the poet with shoulder-length black curls, who because of his love of Kant and studies in Germany, is described in the novel as the “semi-Russian neighbor”. The aria “Kuda, kuda vy udalilis’” (Where have you gone, o golden days of my spring?) turned out to be the highpoint of the performance. Waiting for the duel to begin at the crack...
C’est là que le Lenski du ténor Bogdan Volkov intervient, sur la pointe des sons d’abord, puis dans l’apothéose de l’issue funeste du duel. Tout est contenu dans le souffle, infiniment long et modulé qui lui permet de hisser l’interprétation vocale du personnage hors de toute assignation à un style prétendument russe. Il est le poète, celui qui rêve ses amours, celui en qui le rêve s...