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Tatyana, a dreamer, falls in love with the glamorous Onegin whose arrogance conceals an inability to love. The peaceful household is destroyed when Onegin kills his friend Lensky in a duel. Years pass and Onegin once again meets Tatyana, now married to an elderly prince. Her poise and elegance entrance Onegin. But he has missed his moment. Onegin's turbulence reflects Tchaikovsky's own state of mind in the months of his short marriage and the resulting mental breakdown.

Text by Konstantin Shilovsky, the composer and his brother Modest, based on the novel in rhyming verse by Alexander Pushkin
First performance Maly Theatre, Moscow, 29/17 March 1879

Sung in Russian with surtitles

The Rising Stars at Nevill Holt

Director: Stephen Medcalf
Designer: Francis O'Connor
Conductor: Toby Purser
Choreographer: Lynne Hockney
Lighting Designer: Paul Keogan

Eugene Onegin: James McOran-Campbell
Tatyana: Ilona Domnich
Olga: Caryl Hughes
Lensky: Anthony Flaum
Madam Larina: Alexia Mankovskaya
Prince Gremin: Matthew Stiff
Filipyevna: Miriam Sharrad

Full synopsis

Study guide from Pacific Opera

Tchaikovsky resources

The Polonaise from Act III

Wikipedia