First love, last rites: Onegin (Gunter Papendell) confronts the married Tatyana (Asmik Grigorian) and As the spotlight closes round Tatyana, turf still under foot, we realise that we’re seeing a ...

The plot of the opera takes place in Russia in the 1820s, on the Larin country estate and in St. Petersburg. Act I Scene 1: The mother and the nurse are making jam outside the Larin country house, ...

The curtain comes up to reveal a lush green stage, complete with grassy carpet and a rich forest behind, designed by Rebecca Ringst. It is the garden of sisters Olga and Tatyana’s house, and the two ...

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 ...

TCHAIKOVSKY’S Eugene Onegin is a lyrical opera based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin. Performed by Komische Oper Berlin and directed by Barrie Kosky it is a beautiful portrayal of the story of Eugene ...

When a young Russian singer suggested to Tchaikovsky in 1877 that he compose an opera based on Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin’s famous novel-in-verse, he dismissed it as a “crazy” idea. “Then, ...

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There has to be an imperative for translating film into opera. It happens often enough. Take Olga Neuwirth’s Lost Highway or Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel or Nico Muhly’s Marnie. When the idea ...

Of one of only two fully staged operas at the EIF this year, the bets were on that Komische Oper Berlin's Eugene Onegin had to be a dead cert and, in Barrie Kosky's production first seen in the ...