Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin

Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, starring Asmik Grigorian as Tatiana and Iurii Samoilov as Eugene Onegin, conducted by Timur Zangiev. When bookish Tatiana meets Eugene Onegin, she's immediately smitten and naively declares her feelings in a letter. He dismisses her, but years later and much too late realises he loves her back.

Presented from the Met by Debra Lew Harder and Ira Siff.

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Tatiana ..... Asmik Grigorian (soprano)
Eugene Onegin ..... Iurii Samoilov (baritone)
Lenski ..... Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor)
Olga ..... Maria Barakova (mezzo-soprano)
Filippyevna ..... Larissa Diadkova (mezzo-soprano)
Prince Gremin ..... Alexander Tsymbalyuk (bass-baritone)
Met Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Timur Zangiev (conductor)

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.