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Opera on 3: Hvorostovsky's Eugene Onegin

Hvorostovsky's Eugene Onegin

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Hvorostovsky's Eugene Onegin

Dmitri Hvorostovsky's 2015 final performance as Eugene Onegin from the Royal Opera House.

Ahead of tomorrow evening's final of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2019, another chance to hear a previous winner from 2015 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.

Ahead of tomorrow evening's Final of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2019, tonight we focus on previous winner of that feted title - the Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky.  This evening we'll hear his final UK stage performance in the title role of Eugene Onegin, a performance recorded in 2015 from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
The Guardian described his performance as ‘exceptional even by his own high standards’.

Described by tonight's conductor, Semyon Bychkov, as an opera about young people, for young people, Eugene Onegin is based on Alexander Pushkin's verse novel of the same name. The emotions of youth, love and loss are at the core of the story and at the heart of the music in this, one of Tchaikovsky's best-loved operas.
 
 
Eugene Onegin ..... Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
Tatyana ..... Nicole Car (soprano)
Olga ..... Oksana Volkova (mezzo-soprano)
Lensky ..... Michael Fabiano (tenor)
Madame Larina ..... Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano)
Filipyevna ..... Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)
Monsieur Triquet ..... Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor)
Prince Gremin ..... Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass)
Zaretsky ..... James Platt (bass)
A Captain ..... David Shipley (bass)
 
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

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