Tchaikovsky’s most popular opera, the tale of the ill-timed love between Onegin and the beautiful Tatiana, contains some of the composer’s most lyrical and romantic music
Natalya Romaniw as Tatyana Photo: James Glossop
Sunday 21 October at 6.00pm on RNZ Concert
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.
Samuel Dale Johnson as Onegin and Peter Auty as Lensky Photo: James Glossop
Cast:
Samuel Dale Johnson (Eugene Onegin), Natalya Romaniw (Tatyana), Peter Auty (Vladimir Lensky), Sioned Gwen Davies (Olga), Samuel Boden (Telemachus), Alison Kettlewell (Madame Larina), Anne-Marie Owens (Filipyevna), Graeme Broadbent (Prince Gremin), Christopher Gillett (Monsieur Triquet), Alexey Gusev (Captain), James Platt (Zaretsky), Matthew Kimble (Guillot), Scottish Opera/Stuart Stratford
Recorded in the Theatre Royal Glasgow by the BBC
Eve Mutso in Scottish Opera's Eugene Onegin Photo: James Glossop
