Laurent Pelly & Alain Altinoglu
About 'Yevgeny Onegin'
LA MONNAIE / DE MUNT
Opera
Yevgeny Onegin Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Presentation
And happiness was so possible. So close…!— Pushkin (Eugene Onegin)
In 1830 Alexander Pushkin published his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, a masterpiece of Russian literature that is at once a satire of a society plagued by ennui and a melodramatic flight of fancy. In 1881 Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky translated this plot into ‘lyrical scenes’. The music is wholly used to articulate the feelings of the characters while the orchestra seeks to unify the musical idiom by means of compulsive themes of great subtlety. After his recent forays into the Russian repertoire, Alain Altinoglu will turn his attention to a score that is characteristic of the ‘lyrical truth’ dear to Tchaikovsky. Frustrated human beings, the playthings of fate, are at the heart of Laurent Pelly’s staging. The minimalist set design will underline the lightness and sadness of the subject while providing a setting conducive to the expression of the characters’ fantasies and inner torments.
Dates & tickets
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Location
Prices
Dynamic ticket prices
Starting from € 12 to € 165
-30 years old: € 10 / € 50
Language
Sung in Russian
Surtitles in French and Dutch
Presentation
Introductory talks 45' before the start of performance (NL/FR)
Running time
3:20 (including two intervals)
Streaming
Broadcast on Musiq3 and Klara
29.4.2022
Lyric scenes in 3 acts
Libretto by
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
and Konstantin Shilovsky,
after Pushkin’s novel in verse
World premiere
Maly Theatre, Moscow
29.3.1879
Gallery
Magazine
Dates
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Sun 29 Jan 2023
Time15:00
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Tue 31 Jan 2023
Time19:30
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Wed 01 Feb 2023
Time19:30
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Thu 02 Feb 2023
Time19:30
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Sat 04 Feb 2023
Time19:30
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Sun 05 Feb 2023
Time15:00
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Tue 07 Feb 2023
Time19:30
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Thu 09 Feb 2023
Time19:30
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Fri 10 Feb 2023
Time19:30
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Sun 12 Feb 2023
Time15:00
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Tue 14 Feb 2023
Time19:30
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Cast
Cast
ConductorALAIN ALTINOGLU Director & CostumesLAURENT PELLY
Set designMASSIMO TRONCANETTI LightingMARCO GIUSTI ChoreographyLIONEL HOCHE Costume collaborationJEAN-JACQUES DELMOTTE Chorus masterJAN SCHWEIGER
LarinaBERNADETTA GRABIAS TatyanaSALLY MATTHEWS
NATALIA TANASII (1, 4, 10, 14.2) OlgaLILLY JØRSTAD
LOTTE VERSTAEN ° (1, 4, 10, 14.2) Filipp’yevnaCRISTINA MELIS Yevgeny OneginSTÉPHANE DEGOUT
YURIY YURCHUK (1, 4, 10, 14.2) LenskyBOGDAN VOLKOV
SAM FURNESS (1, 4, 10, 14.2) Prince GreminNICOLAS COURJAL Captain PetrovitchKRIS BELLIGH ZaretskyKAMIL BEN HSAÏN LACHIRI ° TriquetCHRISTOPHE MORTAGNE Guillot JÉRÔME JACOB-PAQUAY Precentor CARLOS MARTINEZ
HWANJOO CHUNG (31.1 & 2, 5, 7, 9.2)
° MM Laureate
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra
ProductionLA MONNAIE CoproductionTHE ROYAL DANISH OPERA (Copenhagen)
Act 1 chorus costumes originally made by La Monnaie for the coproduction of The Golden Cockerel with Teatro Real of Madrid and Opéra National de Lorraine
In co-production with Shelter Prod and Prospero MM Productions, with the support of Taxshelter.be and ING
With the support of the Belgian Federal Government's Tax Shelter
