Eugene Onegin - Royal Opera House Covent Garden (2015-2016) - Eugene Onegin - Royal Opera House Covent Garden (2015-2016)

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Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s best-loved opera, Eugene Onegin, is based on Alexander Pushkin’s verse novel of the same name. It provided Tchaikovsky with an opportunity to present everyday and authentic experiences on the stage, in contrast to the epic narratives that characterized much European opera of the time. After initial consternation that Tchaikovsky should set to music this pinnacle of Russian literature, Eugene Onegin quickly became a firm favourite with Russian audiences. Within a decade of its 1879 premiere it had been performed over one hundred times in St Petersburg.

Tchaikovsky’s deep sympathy for his heroine Tatyana is shown in the tenderness of her music. Her yearning string motif opens the opera and it gains full expression in her letter aria in Act I – one of the most intense solo scenes ever written for the soprano voice. In Kasper Holten’s production, the turbulence of Tatyana and Onegin’s youth is contrasted with the self-realization they gain in later life. The staging foregrounds the power of memory and the futile desire to rewrite the past.

More information is available on the opera house's official website.

Schedule

December 19, 2015 19:00:00

December 22, 2015 19:30:00

December 30, 2015 19:30:00

January 02, 2016 19:00:00

January 04, 2016 19:30:00

January 07, 2016 19:30:00

Casting

Kasper Holten

Semyon Bychkov

Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Michael Fabiano

David Shipley

James Platt

Jean-Paul Fouchécourt

Nicole Car

Oksana Volkova

Catherine Wyn-Rogers

Ferruccio Furlanetto

Work's characters list

Director

Conductor

Eugen Onegin

Vladimir Lenski

Capitaine

Zaretski

Triquet

Tatiana

Olga

Filipjevna

Prince Gremin

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