The serial novel that inspires and gives its name to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's opera, written in poem form by Alexander Pushkin, tells the life course in dramatic irreconcilable parallel of three young people, Tatiana, Lensky and Onegin, marked from the beginning of their short lives by cultural difference: Tatiana, who writes in French but shows his purely Russian soul; Lensky, cultivated in the Germanic and Onegin tradition, an aspiring English dandy with melancholy Byronic outbursts. The composer, that through music makes the Russian essence coexist in the instrumental contributions with the universality of the human message in the dramatic treatment, turns the novel into stanza verse oneguiana -of curious rhyme, that forces permanent dialogue between the masculine and the feminine- in a succession of lyrical scenes that, for the sake of the theatrical convention of the moment, They make up three acts centered on the scene of Tatiana's letter to Onegin.
As musical director of this second Eugene Oneguin in Les Arts, promising young director Timur Zangiev debuts, disciple of Gennady Rozhdestvensky. He has been praised for his impeccable technique and comes with the endorsement of Tchaikovsky's Lady of Spades at La Scala and Prokofiev's The Gambler at the Salzburg Festival., in addition to Onegin at La Scala and, soon, at the Metropolitan and the Vienna Opera. The thorny love triangle that centers the plot of this opera has been entrusted to a trio of vocal aces led by Mattia Olivieri - a former student of the Center de Perfectionament., currently in full international career-, that debuts Oneguin in Valencia, alongside veteran Dmitry Korchak, once again like Lenski, and the soprano Corinne Winters -who made such a pleasant impression on Jennóf– in Tatiana's skin. Laurent Pelly, after his successful Cinderella, shows its dramatic side in this acclaimed production by La Monnaie de Brussels, emotional and of enormous visual beauty, which highlights the poetic essence of Pushkin's work of the same name.
EUGENIO ONEGUIN
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Lyrical scenes in three acts
Libretto by Konstantin Shilovski and Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky,
based on the novel of the same name by Alexander Pushkin
Premiere 29 March 1879
Teatro Maly, Moscow
