About the event 'Eugene Onegin'

The Paris Opera presents "Eugene Onegin", Tchaikovsky's opera in three acts, with libretto by the composer and Konstantin Shilovsky, based on the novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin.

In this unchanging Russia, people drink tea and watch the seasons go by. The only sorrows of existence are those brought to the surface by books, poetry and music. In this imperturbable flow of things, this comfortable ennui, Tatiana's letter suddenly opens up the fissures of the heart to reveal with implacable lucidity the violence of desire. Three characters made to love each other tear each other apart and, literally, kill each other. The tragic is no longer what it was: love is impossible, though not because of some outside fate, be it willed by a god or by society. It is not stymied by anything external: hearts are incapable of their own happiness and work ceaselessly for their own ruin. Onegin kills his friend Lenski in a duel. Tatiana, in love but married to another, rebuffs the same Onegin to whom she had once so passionately offered herself: an ordinary tragedy, but not in the least blunted by its ordinariness.

Tchaikovsky subsumes Pushkin into his dreamscape and invents a new operatic language of lyrical and exacerbated sensibility. Alongside Olga Guryakova, Ludovic Tézier embodies this mythical operatic figure for the first time at the Paris Opera.

Performed in Russian

Vasily Petrenko, Conductor
Willy Decker, Stage director
Wolfgang Gussmann, Sets and costumes
Hans Toelstede, Lighting
Athol Farmer, Choreography
Patrick Marie Aubert, Chorus master

Nadine Denize, Madame Larina

Olga Guryakova, Tatiana

Alisa Kolosova, Olga

Nona Javakhidze, Filipievna

Ludovic Tézier, Eugene Onegin

Joseph Kaiser, Lenski

Gleb Nikolski, Le Prince Grémine

Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Monsieur Triquet

Ugo Rabec, Zaretski

Last update 2012 Editorial Team Classictic.com

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