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Eugene Onegin
Royal Opera House, London
Sat, 8th March 2008 - Mon, 7th April 2008
From £35.00*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 Jirí Belohlávek Christopher Willis Madame Larina Sarah Pring Diana Montague Tatyana Hibla Gerzmava Marina Poplavskaya Olga Ekaterina Semenchuk Filipievna Elizabeth Sikora Lensky Hans-Peter König Piotr Beczala Eugene Onegin Gerald Finley Prince Gremin Hans-Peter König Brindley Sherratt Zaretsky Vuyani Mlinde* M. Triquet Robin Leggate 
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