Eva Tyne: A Character Analysis

Eva Tyne is a young, Irish violinist living in New York City. She is a talented and committed musician whose career seems to be kicking off. However, she soon finds herself in a hospital after collapsing in her solo debut with the New Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra. When discharged from the hospital; instead of returning home to her boyfriend, Kryštof, she slumbers at her best friend, Valentina’s, apartment. She subsequently meets a good-looking Latin American man named Daniel in the bar of a hotel and they spend the night together. Shortly after, she meets a dubious -looking Russian immigrant Alexander who offers to sell her a Stradivari violin. He suggests that she goes to his house to see it. She sceptically agrees, and though intoxicated,

when she gets the opportunity to play it, she falls in love. Multiple thoughts flood her mind; if the violin is really an original and how Alexander has one if it is, if he stole it and whether or not she has the funds to purchase it. She doubtfully ignores the questions and plans to raise over six hundred thousand dollars to get this violin that she has named Magdalena, with help from investment banker, Daniel, who soon becomes her lover.
She visits a luthier when she discovers a crack in Magdalena, and he assures her that she owns a del Gesù violin. Eva finally gets the international recognition she deserves. She performs in Dublin, Ireland and in Cologne, Germany, where she awaits Daniel’s arrival. However he tells her that he can no longer leave New York owing to work-related issues and Eva suspects that he and Valentina are having an affair. She becomes deranged and questions Magdalena’s history. Before long, an elderly Jewish woman comes forward and
insists that Eva’s grandfather had owned the violin but the Nazi’s took it from him in the late 1930’s.