Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Yelizaveta Andreyevna Lavrovskaya (Russian: Elizaveta Andreevna Lavrovskaya; October 131845- February 4, 1919) was a Russian mezzo-soprano praised for her dramatic performances of operatic arias and her sensitive interpretations of lieder. An acquaintance of composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, she suggesed that he compose an opera based on Alexander Pushkin's verse-play Eugene Onegin. Tchaikovsky followed her suggestion; the result was the composer's finest opera.