Opera
Yevgeny Onegin
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
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.
Magazine
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OperaLaurent Pelly & Alain Altinoglu
About 'Yevgeny Onegin'
"It's about nothing, and yet it's about everything. It's about life and death, it's about love and social hierarchy..." In the run-up to their fourth collaboration at La Monnaie, we sat down with Alain Altinoglu and Laurent Pelly — a conductor with a unique theatrical feeling, a director who knows how to "stage" music.
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OperaStéphane Degout
Yevgeny Onegin and Prince Gremin, two destinies entwined
With his debut in the role of the charming and reluctant anti-hero Yevgeny Onegin, the French baritone sets himself new challenges.
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OperaYevgeny Onegin
A musical synopsis with Alain Altinoglu
A love story that is not actually a love story, spleen and ennui, grand balls, passionate impulses, a duel in the mist and intoxicating melodies... All the ingredients of a real Tchaikovsky masterpiece. Read the synopsis of Yevgeny Onegin here, along with the opera's musical highlights provided and discussed by conductor Alain Altinoglu.
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Opera“Your devoted friend, P. Tchaikovsky”
Yevgeny Onegin, a cry from the heart
In addition to composing some of the most popular works in the whole history of music, Tchaikovsky was an assiduous correspondent. His letters on Yevgeny Onegin reveal a perfectionist artist who was searching for lyrical innovation and marked by his own tumultuous emotional life...
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OperaLaurent Pelly at La Monnaie
A video portrait
In January, director Laurent Pelly returns to la Monnaie for a new production of Tchaikovsky's Yevgeny Onegin. It marks his fifth visit to our house, after Don Quichotte (2010), Cendrillon (2011), The Golden Cockerel (2016) and Don Pasquale (2018), who all met with critical and public acclaim. In this small documentary, we sit down with Laurent Pelly to look back on these beloved La Monnaie productions and to discuss the artistic credo that underpins them.
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Dates
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Sun 29 Jan 2023
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15:00
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Tue 31 Jan 2023
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19:30
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Wed 01 Feb 2023
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19:30
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Thu 02 Feb 2023
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19:30
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Sat 04 Feb 2023
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19:30
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Sun 05 Feb 2023
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15:00
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Tue 07 Feb 2023
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19:30
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Thu 09 Feb 2023
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19:30
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Fri 10 Feb 2023
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19:30
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Sun 12 Feb 2023
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15:00
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Tue 14 Feb 2023
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19:30
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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
