person
Elena
also: Елена
FICTIONAL CHARACTER in Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky's play "Symphony", evidently a singer. Chekhov praises the character overall but criticizes her language as too masculine in places, especially in a passage recalling a singer she heard in Mannheim, and proposes a specific punctuation fix for that passage. Not the same character as (the heroine of the Prince Serebryany stage adaptation) or any real historical Elena in this corpus. Per STYLE.md's pinned exception, kept as "Elena," not respelled "Yelena." Not a real person.
Reading notes
- To M. I. Chaykovsky, 16 February 1890. Moscow. §5 Elena is done well, though in places she talks in a man's language.
Elena is a character in "Symphony" -- per STYLE.md's pinned exception, kept as "Elena" rather than respelled "Yelena." Not to be confused with the unrelated "Elena" character in the Prince Serebryany stage adaptation discussed elsewhere in this corpus, nor with any of the real historical Elenas already catalogued (e.g.). Chekhov's criticism here is one of register: in the passage recalling a singer in Mannheim, her language reads as too masculine for the scene's intended warmth.