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Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
From: Musical Opinion
Date: 20070701
Author:Barnes, Clive
Love at the wrong time, love in a cold climate, duels and fidelity, poets and Princes - the sweep of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin offers a vivid glimpse of 19th-century Russian society as seen through the lens of its poet, Alexander Pushkin. It triumphantly returned on 9 February with the formidable and beautiful Renée Fleming in the role of the poignant Tatiana for the first time at the Met. With the great Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky as the arrogant Onegin, and under the batonless, charismatic hands of conductor Valery Gergiev, this was a performance to cherish.
When Robert Carsen's ...
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