Eugene Onegin

Event location: Royal Opera House. Ongoing event.

Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky

Running time: 3 hours

Sung in Russian with English surtitles

* Jette Parker Young Artist

Tchaikovsky was drawn to Pushkin's famous verse novel of 1833 as the subject for an opera by its 'Intimate and powerful drama¦ which can touch me to the quick'. Emotionally intense, the result has similarly touched audiences since its Moscow premiere in 1881. The music has Tchaikovsky at his most dramatic, from the emotional intimacy of the famous Letter scene to the grandeur of St Petersburg society on display. This production by the late Steven Pimlott with designer Antony McDonald had its premiere by The Royal Opera in 2006 and returns here for the first time with a striking new cast of familiar names to present one of opera's great works.

Eugene Onegin is unimpressed with naive Tatyana when they first meet, and her impetuous letter of love to him prompts a cruelly dismissive response. But the tables are turned when they meet again after she has become the sophisticated and beautiful wife of Prince Gremin; Onegin's attempts to gain her love are now thrown back at him. And if the future happiness of Lensky and Olga at first seems certain, Onegin's intervention leads only to a duel and death.

Credits

Revival Director

Elaine Kidd

Production

Steven Pimlott

Composer

Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky

Designs

Anthony McDonald

Lighting

Peter Mumford

Choreography

Linda Dobell

Performers

Conductor

JirÃ BelohlÃ¡vek

Christopher Willis

Madame Larina

Sarah Pring

Diana Montague

Tatyana

Hibla Gerzmava

Marina Poplavskaya

Olga

Ekaterina Semenchuk

Filipievna

Elizabeth Sikora

Lensky

Hans-Peter KÃ¶nig

Piotr Beczala

Eugene Onegin

Gerald Finley

Prince Gremin

Hans-Peter KÃ¶nig

Brindley Sherratt

Zaretsky

Vuyani Mlinde*

M. Triquet

Robin Leggate

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