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He performed his story 'I Need You To Know' with The Moth in 2015, where he now leads storytelling workshops. He loves to teach Eugene Onegin to his Russian opera seminar through the lens of Avril Lavigne's 'Sk8er Boi.' (Trust him, it works!) Tim Manley is a writer, illustrator, storyteller, and educator. He trained as a cellist in Russia during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and has spent seven years total living there. Philip Ewell is a professor of music theory at Hunter College of the City University of New York, where he specializes in Russian music, 20th-century music, race studies in music, and more. She loves the Letter Scene because it allows her to act out the intense emotions of a teenager who's fallen in love for the very first time. Of all the roles she's performed, the shy and soulful Tatyana is the one she relates to best.

Soprano Renée Fleming is one of the most acclaimed singers of her generation, singing across genres from classical to Broadway to jazz and more.

Host Rhiannon Giddens and her guests explore Tatyana's famous Letter Scene and what it tells us about Tchaikovsky, Russian society, and the nearly universal experience of unrequited love. His answer defines the rest of her life, and the course of the opera. Young and naive, but also fiercely confident, she pours out her feelings for the visiting Eugene Onegin in one night of impassioned love-letter-making. In Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, it's the 16-year-old Tatyana who pins her heart on her sleeve. But being open with your emotions and putting yourself out there can change you in unexpected ways.

Saying 'I love you' for the first time takes courage, especially when you don't know the response you'll get.

I Love You: Renée Fleming Sings Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin

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