Grange Park Opera

Estimated running times: Curtain up 5:20pm, Interval 7:20pm - 9:00pm, End time 9:40pm

Based on the novel in rhyming verse by Alexander Pushkin

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.

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First performance Maly Theatre, Moscow, 29/17 March 1879

Sung in Russian with surtitles

With the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Madam Larina: Anne-Marie Owens
Tatyana: Susan Gritton
Olga: Frances Bourne
Filipyevna: Kathleen Wilkinson
Lensky: Robert Anthony Gardiner
Eugene Onegin: Brett Polegato
Prince Gremin: Clive Bayley
A Captain: Jonathan Alley
Zaretsky: Nicolas Dwyer
Monsieur Triquet: Stuart Kale

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

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