| Date and venue | Title |
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| 30-May-2013 Grange Park Opera, Northington | Stephen Medcalf and Martyn Brabbins bring us a mixed Eugene Onegin at Grange Park |
 The scene in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin where the peasants, weary from gathering in the harvest, sing and dance for the woman who owns the estate (and, for that matter, owns them) is perhaps not the best example of gritty social realism in opera. Kasper Holten’s recent Royal Opera House production had the peasants grimly facing forward as they sang their joyful song, obviously going through the motions of a ritual that’s expected of them.Read full review... | |
| 11-Mar-2013 Royal Academy of Music, Sir Jack Lyons Theatre | An absorbing Eugene Onegin at Royal Academy Opera |
 For an opera school production, it's a good idea to choose a classic: something that will focus the audience on the quality of the singers and orchestra rather than on innovation in the piece or programming. It's better still if you can find a classic that was originally composed with a conservatoire performance in mind, and this is what Royal Academy Opera have chosen this term, in the shape of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, first performed in 1879 by students at the Moscow Conservatoire.
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| 11-Feb-2013 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | When Pushkin comes to shove: Kasper Holten's Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House |
 BILL COOPER.jpg) Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is one of the most beautiful scores in the operatic repertoire, and I don’t blame people who come to it looking forward to immersing themselves in the warm bath of the familiar story and music. For many of the audience – and, it has to be said, critics – Kasper Holten’s deconstructed Onegin clearly felt as if nanny had taken teddy away and left a book on German Expressionist cinema in its place.
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| 20-Sep-2012 Cadogan Hall | A decadent night at the Russian opera: Grange Park Opera Rising Stars in Eugene Onegin |
 Eugene Onegin, a lyric opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, is based on Pushkin’s novel of the same name, converted into an operatic libretto by Konstantin Shilovsky. It tells the tale of a selfish hero, Onegin, who rejects the outburst of love from the young Tatyana and instead flirts with her older sister, Olga, who is engaged to his best friend, Lensky. This leads to a duel, in which Lensky is killed. Onegin, horrified by what he has done, leaves Russia and when he returns years later he finds that Tatyana is married to Prince Gremin, a battle-scarred soldier.Read full review... | |
