The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin
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: Timur Zangiev, Asmik Grigorian, Maria Barakova
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The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin
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.
Creators and cast
- Directors
- Deborah Warner, Gary Halvorson
- Cast
- Timur Zangiev, Asmik Grigorian, Maria Barakova, Larissa Diadkova, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Iurii Samoilov
- Studio
- The Metropolitan Opera
Maturity rating
10-12PGCheck the rating before watching with younger viewers.
