The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin

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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.

Crew

DW

Deborah Warner

Director

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Writer

KS

Konstantin Shilovsky

Writer

Gary Halvorson

Gary Halvorson

Director

Cast

TZ

Timur Zangiev

Conductor

Asmik Grigorian

Asmik Grigorian

Tatiana

MB

Maria Barakova

Olga

LD

Larissa Diadkova

Filippyevna

Sd

Stanislas de Barbeyrac

Lenski

IS

Iurii Samoilov

Eugene Onegin

Alexander Tsymbalyuk

Alexander Tsymbalyuk

Gremin

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