Sunday 28 May at 6.00pm on RNZ Concert
TCHAIKOVSKY: Eugene Onegin
The composer’s many moods - tender, grand, melancholy - are all given free rein in this opera based on Pushkin’s iconic verse novel, which re-imagines the Byronic romantic anti-hero as the definitive bored Russian aristocrat caught between convention and ennui
Tatiana......................... Anna Netrebko
Onegin......................... Peter Mattei
Olga............................. Elena Maximova
Lenski.......................... Alexey Dolgov
Prince Gremin.............. Stefan Kocán
Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Robin Ticciati (EBU)
Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin sung by Anna Netrebko (excerpt)