Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin gives exquisite voice to the casualties of love, the victims in the battle between raw emotion and social convention. Conductor Douglas Boyd, director Michael Boyd and ...

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 ...

Memory often plays tricks on us. I recall Northern Ireland Opera’s former incarnation, Opera Northern Ireland, performing Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onégin at Belfast’s freshly restored Grand Opera House in ...

In restless youth, adolescent gloom, she was waiting… but for whom? Tatyana is a dreamer, lost in romantic stories. When the dashing Eugene Onegin walks into her world, she feels her own love story ...

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, ...

In the story ballet canon, there are terrible boyfriends, and then there is Eugene Onegin, the most toxically masculine leading man of all. And then there’s Onegin, who rejects the affections of a ...

The first sign that the eponymous Russian aristocrat in Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky’s opera “Eugene Onegin” is something less than a quality guy is his tossed-off remark to a would-be lover, Tatyana, ...