Name: Yevgeny Onegin
Start: 2014-10-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2014-10-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater am Fleischmarkt

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Soprano

Viktorija Bakan

Tatiana

Contralto

Natalia Kawałek-Plewniak

Olga

Baritone

Tobias Greenhalgh

Eugene Onegin

Tenor

Vladimir Dmitruk

Lensky

Bass

Christoph Seidl

Prince Gremin

Conductor

Peter Valentovic

Stage director

Ted Huffman

Costume designer

Samal Bak

Set designer

MusikTheater an der Wien

Russian

Yevgeny Onegin -  (Eugene Onegin)

Vienna

Austria

Theater am Fleischmarkt

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Yevgeny Onegin Tchaikovsky,P

For a small stage Tchaikovsky has in his own words Eugen Onegin designed for the modest means of a conservatory, as Maly Theater was done at the first performance in 1879 with students of the Moscow Conservatory on. Otherwise - according to the composer - you run the risk of his work being portrayed in terms of size, force and pathos and thus being misunderstood. Our version recalls the original intentions of the composer and underlines the intimate character of these “lyrical scenes”.

Youth in the Russian provinces: while Olga is carefree enjoying life at the side of her fiancé Lenski, her sister Tatiana dreams of breaking out of the narrowness of her hometown. When one day the urbane Onegin comes into her life, Tatjana projects all her longings onto him. In a letter she confesses her love for him, but Onegin is not interested in a marriage and rejects her. To provoke his friend Lensky, Onegin dances the whole evening with Olga at a festival in honor of Tatiana. The situation escalates: Lenski challenges Onegin to a duel and loses. After many years of traveling restlessly through Europe feeling guilty about Lenski's death, Onegin returns to Russia, where he meets Tatiana again, who is now married to Prince Gremin. Onegin tries

English

Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, P. I., From (2014/2014), Directed by Ted Huffman,, Conductor Peter Valentovic, Theater am Fleischmarkt, Vienna, Austria

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