The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin
Overview
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.
Director
Deborah Warner
Top Cast
Timur Zangiev
Conductor
Asmik Grigorian
Tatiana
Maria Barakova
Olga
Larissa Diadkova
Filippyevna
Stanislas de Barbeyrac
Lenski
Iurii Samoilov
Eugene Onegin
Alexander Tsymbalyuk
Gremin
