Organization

Singer

Bass

Ain Anger

Prince Gremin

Contralto

Varduhi Abrahamyan

Olga

Tenor

Piotr Beczała

Lensky

Soprano

Ailyn Pérez

Tatiana

Baritone

Igor Golovatenko

Eugene Onegin

Choreographer

Kim Brandstrup

Video designer

Ian William Galloway

Finn Ross

Lighting designer

Jean Kalman

Costume designer

Chloe Obolensky

Set designer

Tom Pye

Stage director

Deborah Warner

Conductor

James Gaffigan

Projection Designer

Marjukka Tepponen

Mezzo-soprano

Larissa Diadkova

Filippyevna

Richard Bernstein

Zaretsky

Tony Stevenson

Triquet

Elena Zaremba

Larina

Vladyslav Buialskyi

Company Commander

Marco Antonio Jordão

Peasant

Chorus master

Donald Palumbo

English National Opera

The Metropolitan Opera

Rúisis

Yevgeny Onegin -  (Eugene Onegin)

Producer

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Yevgeny Onegin Tchaikovsky,P

Public

Private

Béarla

Gearmáinis

Spáinnis

Approved

Ailyn Pérez sings an excerpt from Tatiana’s Act III scene with Onegin, portrayed by Igor Golovatenko. Production: Deborah Warner. Conductor: James Gaffigan. 2021–22 season. Videography by Pete Scalzitti.

0:03 / 2:30   Eugene Onegin: Act III Excerpt

Ailyn Pérez has excited Met audiences in several of opera’s benchmark soprano roles, and she adds another one this season as Tatiana, the naïve young girl who grows into a sophisticated beauty in Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous opera of unrequited love. Baritone Igor Golovatenko returns on the heels of an impressive 2019 Met debut in The Queen of Spades to sing the title role of the urbane nobleman who rejects Tatiana, much to his later dismay. Star tenor and audience favorite Piotr Beczała is the hot-headed Lenski, and James Gaffigan conducts.World premiere: Malïy Theatre, Moscow, 1879, with students from the Moscow Conservatory; Professional premiere: Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 1881
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 re-imagines 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.Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93) enjoyed tremendous fame during his lifetime as a composer of symphonic music and ballets. His operas have achieved a steadily growing popularity outside of Russia. The libretto for Eugene Onegin was largely put together by the composer himself, with help from his brother Modest (1850–1916) and others. The source of the libretto is the mock-epic verse novel of the same name by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), whose position in Russian literature can be compared only to that of Shakespeare in English.Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93) enjoyed tremendous fame during his lifetime as a composer of symphonic music and ballets. His operas have achieved a steadily growing popularity outside of Russia. The libretto for Eugene Onegin was largely put together by the composer himself, with help from his brother Modest (1850–1916) and others. The source of the libretto is the mock-epic verse novel of the same name by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), whose position in Russian literature can be compared only to that of Shakespeare in English.Tchaikovsky’s universally beloved lyric gifts are at their most powerful and multilayered in this opera. Rich ensembles and buoyant dance numbers punctuate the work, and the vocal solos are among the most striking in the repertory: Anyone who can remember the first stirrings of love will be moved by Tatiana’s Letter Scene, in which she rhapsodically composes a letter to Onegin in an outpouring of gorgeous melody. This is rivaled in popularity by the tenor’s moving farewell to his young life in Act II, while Onegin’s Act III narrative on the pointlessness of life borders on Wagnerian

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