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Eugen Onegin

Text Piotr I. Tchaikovsky & Konstantin Schilowski after Alexander Puschkin
Lyrical scenes in three acts


Cast

Musical direction
Lothar Koenigs

Staging and stage
Dmitri Tcherniakov

Costumes
Maria Danilova

Light
Gleb Filshtinsky

Co-Costume Designer
Elena Zaytseva

Larina
Elena Manistina

Tatjana
Ruzan Mantashyan

Olga
Daria Sushkova

Eugen Onegin
Boris Pinkhasovich

Lenski
Bogdan Volkov

Fürst Gremin
Ilja Kazakov


Contents

A dandy who is as wandered as he is unable to commit, coolly rejects the love of a landowner's daughter - while she grows from this injury, he breaks at his neglect.


ACTION

1st picture: Mrs. Larina, her daughters Tatjana and Olga, the nurse Filipjevna, Vladimir Lenski, Eugene Onegin, neighbors, guests: In the house of the Larins. Neighbor Lenski, Olga's groom, arrives with an unannounced new guest. His friend, young Onegin, has recently arrived from the capital. The guest disrupts everyday life in the Larin household: nobody can hide their interest in him. Onegin expresses doubts about his friend's choice of bride.

2nd image: Tatjana, Filipjevna: Night. Tatyana was upset by the encounter with Onegin. The wet nurse, sensing Tatjana's excitement, tries to distract her and calm her down. Left alone, Tatiana Onegin writes a letter. She sees him as her chosen one. At dawn, Tatyana asks her nurse to deliver the letter to Onegin.

3rd image: Tatyana, Eugene Onegin: Day. Full of anxiety, Tatjana awaits the answer to her declaration of love. Onegin is coming. Tatyana's sincerity touched him, but he cannot return her feelings.

4th picture: Mrs. Larina, Tatiana, Olga, Vladimir Lensky, Eugene Onegin, Filipjevna, Saretsky, neighbors, guests: Tatiana's name day. Lenski has persuaded Onegin to pay another visit to the Larins. But Onegin is irritated by everything. He decides to hurt Lenski by demonstratively flirting with Olga. Lenski is tormented by the willingness with which Olga responds to Onegin's advances. He starts a fight with Onegin and challenges him to a duel.

5th picture: Vladimir Lenski, Eugene Onegin, Saretsky, Olga, Mrs. Larina, Filipjevna, Guillot, neighbors, guests: morning. Lensky is expecting Onegin. He thinks about his life with melancholy and pain. The late Onegin wants to avert further escalation. The former friends have the feeling that they have lost their way. But it's too late, it's impossible to take it back. A shot is fired, Lenski collapses dead.

6th picture: Eugene Onegin, Tatyana, Prince Gremin, guests: Several years later. After a long absence, Onegin returns to life in the capital and meets Tatyana there. She is married and is the center of social attention. Onegin is shocked by his refusal. Tatyana's transformation and her unavailability arouse a raging passion in Onegin.

7th image: Tatyana, Eugene Onegin: Onegin succeeds in forcing a meeting with Tatyana. There is remorse and regret in his words. He demands that his passion be returned and snatches from Tatjana the admission that she still loves him. But her decision to stay with her husband is irrevocable. Onegin despairs.



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