World premiere: Malïy Theatre, Moscow, 1879, with students from the Moscow Conservatory; Professional premiere: Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 1881.
Tchaikovsky’s many moods—tender, grand, melancholy—are all given free rein in Eugene Onegin. The opera is based on Pushkin’s iconic verse novel, which reimagines the Byronic romantic anti-hero as the definitive bored Russian aristocrat caught between convention and ennui; Tchaikovsky, similarly, took Western European operatic forms and transformed them into an authentic and undeniably Russian work. At the core of the opera is the young girl Tatiana, who grows from a sentimental adolescent into a complete woman in one of the operatic stage’s most convincing character developments.
Cast
Tatiana - Asmik Grigorian
Olga - Maria Barakova
Filippyevna - Stephanie Blythe
Lenski - Stanislas de Barbeyrac
Eugene Onegin - Igor Golovatenko
Prince Gremin - Alexander Tsymbalyuk
Conductor
Timur Zangiev
Composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sung in Russian with English subtitles
ESTIMATED RUN TIME
4 HRS 5 MINS, WITH TWO INTERMISSIONS
Pre Theatre Express Menu
Choose Meal + Ticket when booking your seat to preorder your meal for before the showing. Your table will be booked for 1 hour before the showing start time.
Starters
Chicken liver parfait
with bacon jam, crispy apple, toasted focaccia
Asparagus, egg, watercress, Suffolk blue cheese salad (Vegetarian)
Mains
Suffolk chicken supreme
with asparagus, Suffolk bacon, potato terrine, wild mushroom, Maderia sauce
Baron Bigod (Vegetarian)
with asparagus, tomato + wild mushroom filo egg tart, buttered new jersey royals
Dessert
Affogato (Vegetarian)
+£25pp*
This is a sample menu, slight alternations may occur with changes of seasonal produce.
We require a preorder at least 3 days prior and confirmation at booking stage of any dietary requirements.
V – vegetarian
*Adds £25 to the price of a standard adult ticket.
Interval Charcuterie Box
Choose Interval Box + Ticket when booking your seat to preorder your Charcuterie box for the first interval.
+£15 per person*
Not suitable for vegetarians
*Adds £15 to the price of a standard adult ticket.
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