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Eugène Onéguine

Opéra Bastille - from 16 May to 14 June 2017

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Eugène Onéguine

Opera Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovski

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Opéra Bastille - from 16 May to 14 June 2017

3h00 with 1 interval

About

In few words:

"And happiness was so close…"
Alexandre Pouchkine, Eugène Onéguine

In November 1836, irritated by the French lieutenant Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d’Anthès’ importunate attentions towards his wife, the beautiful Natalia Nicolaïevna Gontcharova, Alexander Pushkin challenged his rival to a duel. Beneath a snow-laden sky on the evening of February 8th 1837, the Russian poet, at the height of his glory, was hit by a bullet, costing him his life. Curiously, the same scene had been related in his verse novel, Eugene Onegin, published six years earlier. Inspired by this masterpiece of Russian literature, Tchaikovsky’s opera provides a sublime portrait – both ironic and sympathetic – of a character embittered by society life, rejecting love out of vanity, killing his friend the poet Lenski out of pride and spending the rest of his days in abject despair. A repertoire classic, Willy Decker’s streamlined production makes the Paris Opera echo once more to the strains of Russian romantic music. Edward Gardner conducts an exceptional cast including Peter Mattei in the title role and Anna Netrebko as Tatiana.

Eugène Onéguine

Opera in three acts a,d seven scenes (1879)

After Alexandre Pouchkine
In Russian

Music :

Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovski

Libretto :

Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovski

Constantin S. Chilovski

Conductor :

Edward Gardner

Director :

Willy Decker

Set design :

Wolfgang Gussmann

Costume design :

Wolfgang Gussmann

Lighting design :

Hans Toelstede

Choreography :

Athol Farmer

Chorus master :

José Luis Basso
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris

French and English surtitles
Madame Larina :

Elena Zaremba

Tatiana :

Anna Netrebko

May

Nicole Car

June

Elena Stikhina

31 May

Olga :

Varduhi Abrahamyan

Filipievna :

Hanna Schwarz

Eugène Onéguine :

Peter Mattei

Lenski :

Pavel Černoch

Le Prince Grémine :

Alexander Tsymbalyuk

Monsieur Triquet :

Raúl Giménez

Zaretski :

Vadim Artamonov

Le Lieutenant :

Olivier Ayault

Solo Ténor :

Gregorz Staskiewicz

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