The read
It runs long at 4h 5m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8.4/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Deborah WarnerDirector
- Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyWriter
- Konstantin ShilovskyWriter
- Gary HalvorsonDirector
Cast
- Timur ZangievConductor
- Asmik GrigorianTatiana
- Maria BarakovaOlga
- Larissa DiadkovaFilippyevna
- Stanislas de BarbeyracLenski
- Iurii SamoilovEugene Onegin
- Alexander TsymbalyukGremin
Stills
Themes
opera