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Eugene Onegin

16/06/2018

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Eugene Onegin

Scottish Opera's new production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin presented by Donald Macleod

Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky's tragic tale of unrequited love, in a new production by Scottish Opera from the Theatre Royal in Glasgow. Presented by Donald Macleod.

Scottish Opera present one of the greatest of all Russian operas, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin in a new production by Covent Garden director Oliver Mears. This tragic tale of based on Pushkin's verse novel tells the story of an unrequited love by a young passionate girl (Tatyana) for the sophisticated and arrogant young aristocrat Eugene Onegin. When he enrages his best friend Lensky by flirting with Olga, Lensky challenges him to a duel. Tragedy unfolds as Lensky is killed. A few years later, Onegin, a broken man meets Tatyana again, now married to Prince Gremin and realises that he loves her and begs her to run away with him. The tables are turned and Tatyana, though still in love with him, rejects him for the new life she has chosen.

Performed at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow and presented by Donald Macleod with contributions from vocal coach and director Mark Hathaway.

Eugene Onegin ..... Samuel Dale Johnson (baritone)
Tatyana ..... Natalya Romaniw (soprano)
Lensky ..... Peter Auty (tenor)
Olga ..... Sioned Gwen Davies (mezzo-soprano)
Madame Larina ..... Alison Kettlewell (soprano)
Filipyevna ..... Anne-Marie Owens (mezzo-soprano)
Prince Gremin ..... Graeme Broadbent (bass) 
Monsieur Triquet. ..... Christopher Gillett (tenor)
Zaretsky ..... James Platt (bass) 
Captain ..... Alexey Gusev

The Orchestra of Scottish Opera
Stuart Stratford (conductor)
The Chorus of Eugene Onegin
Jonathan Swinard (chorus master).

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