Opera in 3 acts
Libretto: Konstantin Stepanovich Shilovsky, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky [Based: Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin]
First performance: 17. March 1879, Moscow, Malij Tyeatr / 11. Jan. 1881, Moscow, Balsoj Tyeatr (official)
Recorded: June & July, 2011, De Nederlandse Opera
Madame Larina: Olga Savova
Tatjana: Krassimira Stoyanova
Olga: Elena Maximova
Filipjevna: Nina Romanova
Jevgeni Onjegin: Bo Skovhus
Vladimir Ljenski: Andrej Dunaev
Vorst Gremin: Mikhail Petrenko
Petrovitsj: Peter Arink
Zaretski: Roger Smeets
Monsieur Triquet: Guy de Mey
Zapevalo: Richard Prada
Described by Tchaikovsky as 'lyric scenes', Eugene Onegin receives a spectacular reinterpretation from the Norwegian director Stefan Herheim. His productions create controversy and excitement around Europe, and here he takes Pushkin's story of illusion, disaffection and frustrated love, and places the protagonists - world- eary Onegin and naive, passionate Tatyana - in a triple temporal perspective, referencing the theatrical present, the period of the work's composition, and the pageant of Russia's history. Mariss Jansons, renowned for his mastery of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, conducts this performance from Amsterdam's Muziektheater.
Extra features:
Cast gallery
30-Minute Documentary Film
'Put too much steam into Tchaikovsky's score and it wilts. Be too shy and retiring, on the other hand, and the tragic momentum evaporates. Jansons sets us on a simmer and gradually turns the heat to boiling. It is magisterially paced, stunningly played and, seemingly effortlessly, Jansons captures every aching nuance. [...] Herheim's innovations are often throbbingly acute (and sometimes wickedly funny).'
The Times
'The Concertgebouw Orchestra, of which Mr. Jansons is music director, is here a dream of a pit orchestra. Mr. Jansons's musicality is stamped on every phrase, and he ensures ideal coordination between singers and orchestra.'
New York Times |
[ NTSC ] (1080i)