The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin

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2026 · 245 min · Music · TMDB 5.0/10

Overview

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.

Directed by Deborah Warner

Cast

• Timur Zangiev — Conductor
• Asmik Grigorian — Tatiana
• Maria Barakova — Olga
• Larissa Diadkova — Filippyevna
• Stanislas de Barbeyrac — Lenski