At the movies: Eugene Onegin
Classification: Tchaikovsky, Opera. Starring: Alexei Tanovitsky (Gremin), Anna Netrebko (Tatiana), Mariusz Kwiecien (Eugene Onegin), Oksana Volkova (Olga) and Piotr Beczala (Lenski) Directed by: Fiona Shaw
The Live in HD season begins on November 9 with acclaimed English director Deborah Warner’s new production of Tchaikovsky’s romantic tragedy Eugene Onegin, directed by Fiona Shaw and conducted by Valery Gergiev.
Anna Netrebko opens her third consecutive Met season in her company role debut as Tatiana, the heroine from Pushkin’s classic novel.
Mariusz Kwiecien portrays the self-confident title character, in a much-admired interpretation he has sung in many of the world’s leading opera houses, and Piotr Beczala reprises his acclaimed performance as Onegin’s friend-turned-rival, Lenski.
Reviewing Warner’s production, the Sunday Telegraph praised its ??mixture of haunting visual and emotional impact: cutting straight to the heart of the work, [Warner] shows how Onegin is simultaneously about two colliding Russian societies-rustic provincialism and cosmopolitan decadence-and three wasted lives…?.
This show opens at cinemas on Saturday.
