Tchaikovsky "Duet of Lisa and Polina" (Act 1) "Uzh vecher" from "Queen of Spades"
Roles: Lisa (Soprano), Polina (Paulina) (Mezzo-Soprano / Contralto)
FULL SONG PACK:
- Diction score (sheet music with IPA phonetics and translations),
- Diction audio guide
- 4 computer-generated rehearsal tracks:
- full song audio
- accompaniment
- music minus Lisa
- music minus Polina
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:
Here you can find recordings of this scene:
Tamara Milashkina & Lyudmila Shemchuk (2 verses)
Tamara Milashkina & Irina Arkhipova (3 verses)
Asmik Grigorian and Olga Borodina (3 verses)
Maria Gulegina and Olga Borodina (2 verses)
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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)
Tchaikovsky "Duet of Lisa and Polina" - FULL PACK
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