Met Opera 25/26: Eugene Onegin

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World premiere: Malïy Theatre, Moscow, 1879, with students from the Moscow Conservatory; Professional premiere: Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 1881.

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

Tatiana – Asmik Grigorian

Olga – Maria Barakova

Filippyevna – Stephanie Blythe

Lenski – Stanislas de Barbeyrac

Eugene Onegin – Igor Golovatenko

Prince Gremin – Alexander Tsymbalyuk

Conductor

Timur Zangiev

Composer

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Sung in Russian with English subtitles

ESTIMATED RUN TIME

4 HRS 5 MINS, WITH TWO INTERMISSIONS

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