Tchaikovsky’s Most Popular Opera: Eugene Onegin

Watch this special Metropolitan Opera performance Friday, Jan. 17 beginning at 9 p.m. on WV PBS

Acclaimed English director Deborah Warner’s new production of Tchaikovsky’s most popular opera is directed by her longtime collaborator Fiona Shaw and conducted by Valery Gergiev. Anna Netrebko reprises her company role debut as Tatiana, the naïve heroine of Pushkin’s classic novel. Mariusz Kwiecien portrays the self-confident title character, in a much-admired interpretation he has sung in many of the world’s leading opera houses, and Piotr Beczala reprises his acclaimed performance as Onegin’s friend-turned-rival, Lenski.

Here’s a video from the dress rehearsal in September 2013:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccGKhjEOEuE

Onegin’s aria (“Kogda bi zhizn”) from Act I of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.” Mariusz Kwiecien (Onegin). Production: Deborah Warner. Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Video courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera