Tchaikovsky "Duet of Lisa and Polina" (Act 1) "Uzh vecher" from "Queen of Spades" 
Roles: Lisa (Soprano), Polina (Paulina) (Mezzo-Soprano/ Contralto)
 
Diction score - sheet music with IPA phonetics, word-by-word translation and grammatically correct translations
 
Please note that in performance practice
*) the second verse of this duet is often cut
**) the final cadence is most often performed differently from the original score (please see the notes in our file)
 
You can watch a VIDEO DICTION GUIDE for this aria here:
https://youtu.be/3xCtze1JSk4
 
Here you can find recordings of this scene:
 
Tamara Milashkina & Lyudmila Shemchuk (2 verses)
https://youtu.be/zyC4c0WC_JU
 
Tamara Milashkina & Irina Arkhipova (3 verses)
https://youtu.be/tUfIy6LHlO8
 
Asmik Grigorian and Olga Borodina (3 verses)
https://youtu.be/A9LL5k8hb_Q
 
Maria Gulegina and Olga Borodina (2 verses)
https://youtu.be/haNLlw3dFYI
 
 
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A quick and comprehensive tutorial on Russian phonetics:
https://www.russian4singers.com/russian-diction-for-singers-1
 
 
You can listen to the full opera here:
 
Mariinsky Theatre (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3mClhOp9Z8
 
Film-opera (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16I8grKxD5w&t=22s
 
The Bolshoi Theatre (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_OEAaM-3EQ