Organization

Pianist

Alexander Pakuev

Director, host of the play

Olga Kokh

Conductor

Mikahail Tatarnikov

Stage director

Andriy Zholdak

Set designer

Monica Pormale

Costume designer

Rolands Pēterkops

Mārīte Mastiņa-Pēterkopa

Lighting designer

A. J. Weissbard

Chorus master

Vladimir Stolpovskikh

Music drama consultant

Dmitry Renansky

Assistant Director

Yulia Prokhorova

Alla Marusina

Pamela Cantatore

Sergey Tsyplenkov

Alexey Dmitriev

Singer

Tenor

Boris Stepanov

Lensky

Bass

Alexander Bezrukov

Prince Gremin

Mikhailovsky Theatre

Russian

Yevgeny Onegin -  (Eugene Onegin)

Saint Petersburg

Russia

Mikhailovsky Theater

Yevgeny Onegin Tchaikovsky,P

Public

Eugene Onegin

Approved

Eugene Onegin is a visiting card of Russian opera for the whole world and a story about the Russian soul for a sensitive listener. At the Mikhailovsky Theater, the avant-garde director Andriy Zholdak presented the experience of a radical reading of the opera, which turned out to be shocking, but also overwhelmingly educational. The performance caused a super-emotional reaction and throughout its stage history continues to be the subject of heated discussions. “The psychological theater of Tchaikovsky has been transferred to a different system of imagery - a conventionally metaphorical one,” wrote the reviewers, amazed at the defiant anti-chrestomatism of the interpretation. - The figurative system of the performance raises the degree of feelings, reveals the hidden, turns emotions into passions. In turn, the choreographer compares the score of Onegin to a forest in which it has just rained, and drops of water have remained on the foliage of the trees: "Every beat of Tchaikovsky's music is saturated with this moisture, eroticism, tenderness." Monochrome aesthetics turns out to be an effective artistic technique, where white color consistently gives way to black, and in the final, complete darkness ensues. The scenery, filled with icy symbolism, declares the inevitability of fate hanging over the heroes.

English

Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, P. I., From (2022/2022), Directed by Andriy Zholdak,, Conductor Mikahail Tatarnikov, Mikhailovsky Theater, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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