Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Joanna Motulewicz

Larina

Contralto

Magdalena Pluta

Olga

Anna Lubańska

Filippyevna

Baritone

Stanisław Kuflyuk

Eugene Onegin

Tenor

Mykhailo Malafii

Lensky

Bass

Sergii Magera

Prince Gremin

Damian Wilma

Company Commander

Paweł Horodyski

Zaretsky

Mateusz Zajdel

Triquet

Stage director

Mariusz Treliński

Conductor

Keri-Lynn Wilson

Lighting designer

Felice Ross

Costume designer

Joanna Klimas

Set designer

Boris Kudlička

Choreographer

Emil Wesołowski

Soprano

Aleksandra Orlowska

Tatiana

Libretto

Piotr Czajkowski

Konstantin Szyłowski

Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Polish National Opera

Others

Chorus of the Polish National Opera

Instrumentalists of the Teatr Wielki's orchestra

Ballet

Polish National Ballet

Mimes and models

Russian

Yevgeny Onegin -  (Eugene Onegin)

Warsaw

Poland

Sala Moniuszki

Yevgeny Onegin Tchaikovsky,P

Public

Polish

Approved

Piotr CzajkowskiONIEGINSceny liryczne w trzech aktach (siedmiu obrazach)Premiera inscenizacji: 5/04/2002Dyrygent: Andriy YurkevichReżyseria: Mariusz Trelińsk...

Lyrical scenes in three acts - this is how Eugene Onegin described hisPyotr Tchaikovsky, composing his new opera at an express pace, which he did not want to call the spectacular one. Alexander Pushkin's digressive poem was recommended to the composer by a friend, suggesting that it was an excellent material for a stage adaptation. Tchaikovsky was so enchanted by this work that, under inspiration, he drew up the first draft of the libretto in one night, and two months later he completed three-quarters of the work - he completed the whole work in February 1878 and immediately asked Mikołaj Rubinstein, director of the Moscow Conservatory, to tried the new creation with students. Tchaikovsky did not want to entrust it to the Moscow Grand Theater for fear that the large stage would destroy the intimate, personal mood that he managed to capture on the pages of the score. He decided to do it only two years later,Eugeniusz Onegin to the world's opera stages. 

The lyrical scenes take place in a Russian village, where a cloudy and distant gentleman from St. Petersburg - Onegin arrives. This dandy, out of boredom, falls in love with the innocent Miss Tatiana, who gives her heart to him with youthful trust - but he, a fatal man, rejects this love with contempt. After an unfortunate duel in which he kills his good-natured friend, the poet Lensky, Onegin disappears. She returns years later, when Tatiana is already a great lady, the wife of Prince Griemin, and she is organizing a ball opened with a solemn polonaise. Seeing her so beautiful and wonderful, Onegin, old and bitter, goes mad with love. His enthusiasm impresses Tatiana, but it breaks out of his shoulders, explaining that she is a happily married woman. Onegin is left alone, cursing his miserable fate.

In a beautiful, poetic staging from 2002, Mariusz Treliński saw a contemporary feature in the history of the nineteenth-century dandy and told it subtly, but also with a flourish due to the third, "ball" act, carried out in the excellent scenography of Boris Kudlička, in the spectacular costumes of Joanna Klimas. The viewers remember a handsome, symbolic tree of good and bad, a symbol of Eden standing in the middle of a blissful Russian village - thanks to Onegin, Tatiana receives a bitter lesson in life and learns the difficult art of choice. The story of a dandy who squanders a chance for love and friendship is led in the performance by the mysterious figure of O ***, symbolizing the old Onegin, giving the whole a metaphysical perspective.

The role of Onegin in Treliński's performance was played by the best Polish baritones: Mariusz Kwiecień, Marcin Bronikowski, Artur Ruciński, Stanisław Kuflyuk.

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