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.

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Cast

Timur Zangiev

Conductor

Asmik Grigorian

Tatiana

Maria Barakova

Olga

Larissa Diadkova

Filippyevna

Stanislas de Barbeyrac

Lenski

Iurii Samoilov

Eugene Onegin

Alexander Tsymbalyuk

Gremin