The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin

Tchaikovsky’s many moods—tender, grand, melancholy—are all given free rein in Eugene Onegin. The opera is based on Pushkin’s iconic verse novel, which reimagines the Byronic romantic anti-hero as the definitive bored Russian aristocrat caught between convention and ennui; Tchaikovsky, similarly, took Western European operatic forms and transformed them into an authentic and undeniably Russian work. At the core of the opera is the young girl Tatiana, who grows from a sentimental adolescent into a complete woman in one of the operatic stage’s most convincing character developments.

Cast

Timur Zangiev Conductor

Asmik Grigorian Tatiana Maria Barakova Olga Larissa Diadkova Filippyevna Stanislas de Barbeyrac Lenski Iurii Samoilov Eugene Onegin Alexander Tsymbalyuk Gremin

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