The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin (2026)
Tchaikovsky’s many moods—tender, grand, melancholy—are all given free rein in Eugene Onegin. The opera is based on Pushkin’s iconic verse novel, which reimagines the Byronic romantic anti-hero as the definitive bored Russian aristocrat caught between convention and ennui; Tchaikovsky, similarly, took Western European operatic forms and transformed them into an authentic and undeniably Russian work. At the core of the opera is the young girl Tatiana, who grows from a sentimental adolescent into a complete woman in one of the operatic stage’s most convincing character developments.
Director: Deborah Warner
https://www.metopera.org/season/2025-26-season/eugene-onegin/
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Timur Zangiev as Conductor |
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Asmik Grigorian as Tatiana |
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Maria Barakova as Olga |
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Larissa Diadkova as Filippyevna |
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Stanislas de Barbeyrac as Lenski |
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Iurii Samoilov as Eugene Onegin |
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Alexander Tsymbalyuk as Gremin |
| Directing | Deborah Warner | Director |
| Writing | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Writer |
| Sound | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Sound |
| Writing | Alexander Pushkin | Writer |