About the opera
- Run time: 3hrs 00min, 1 intermission
- Sung in: Russian
- Subtitles: English, German and other languages
- Opera house: Vienna State Opera
When the innocent young Tatiana (Nicole Car) meets the worldly aristocrat Eugene Onegin (Étienne Dupuis), she falls in love almost immediately. In one of the most memorable scenes in Russian opera, she pours out her heart in a passionate letter to Onegin - only to be coldly rejected. When the two meet years later, Tatiana has become the elegant wife of the ageing Prince Gremin (Dimitry Ivashchenko), and it is Onegin's turn to beg for her love. Iván Ayón Rivas is Onegin's unlucky friend, Lenski.
Ticket information
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Vienna State Opera
Address:
Opernring 2, 1010 Vienna, Google Maps
How to get there:
Subway: U1, U2, U4 to Karlsplatz
Trams: 1, 2, D, 62, 71 to Opernring
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) is widely considered the most popular Russian composer in history. His work includes symphonic music, ballets, operas, concertos and chamber music. Tchaikovsky was one of the first students at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he received formal Western-oriented training. His compositional style incorporated developments of the Western European musical tradition while remaining integrally Russian.
Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) occupies a place in Russian literature can only be compared to Shakespeare’s in the English canon. His famous novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was adapted into an operatic libretto by Tchaikovsky, with help from a friend, the poet Konstantin Shilovsky. Some portions of the opera follow very closely Pushkin’s text, retaining much of his poetry.
