Jewgeni Onegin: Komische Oper Berlin
About the Event
Artistic director and head director Barrie Kosky takes on one of the greatest unhappy love stories of operatic literature: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.
Following on from his comedic Don Giovanni in the previous season, baritone Günter Papendell once more proves his range as a vocalist and actor in the role of the titular hero who suffers as a result of his own arrogance.
Via his friend Lensky, Eugene Onegin gets to know two sisters at a country estate: the cheerful Olga and the timid Tatyana, who falls in love with him upon first sight. When she confesses her love to him in a long letter, however, Onegin rejects her and overtly flirts with her sister. Lensky, outraged by Onegin's behavior, challenges his friend to a duel, which ends in Lensky's death. Years later, following an unsettled life, Onegin encounters Tatyana, whose powerful aura now utterly captivates him. But Tatyana is now married. Happily, as she claims…
It was not that of grand opera, but the emotions of real people, 'a conflict which truly touches me', which inspired Tchaikovsky when he achieved the first great success of his operatic career with Eugene Onegin. Poetic richness was more important to the composer than a fast‐paced dramatic plot. Warm, heart‐felt melodies, choruses in the Russian folk tradition and a richly instrumented orchestral sound spirit audiences away into the inner worlds of the protagonists, who – as so often with Tchaikovsky – cannot escape their destiny.
Lyrical scenes in three acts (1879). Libretto by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky and Konstantin Shilovsky. Based on the novel of the same name by Alexander S. Pushkin.
Cast / Production
Director: Barrie Kosky
Stage Design: Rebecca Ringst
Costumes: Klaus Bruns
Dramaturgy: Simon Berger
Choir: David Cavelius
Lighting: Franck Evin
Eugene Onegin: Günter Papendell
Tatyana: Ruzan Mantashyan
Olga: Deniz Uzun
Lenski: Gerard Schneider
Larina: Stefanie Schaefer
Prince Gremin: Tijl Faveyts
Filippyevna: Margarita Nekrasova
Zarezki: Ferhat Baday
Triquet: Christoph Späth
A Captain: Carsten Lau
Choral soloists of the Komische Oper Berlin
Customer Reviews
5.0 of 5
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Junia L, Brazil
Sep 2019
Uma ópera bem montada, com orquestra, bons cantores, lindo cenário. Tem tradução em várias línguas, fácil de entender.
