Eugene Onegin

Synopsis

A deliciously intimate yet devastatingly poignant depiction of unbridled passions and unrequited love, Tchaikovsky’s lyrical masterpiece Eugene Onegin returns to ENO in a new staging that reunites director Deborah Warner and Music Director Edward Gardner for the first time since their acclaimed collaboration on Britten’s Death in Venice in May 2007.

Alongside soprano Amanda Echalaz as the impressionable young country-girl Tatyana, tenor Toby Spence plays the tragically self-dramatising poet Lensky with prize-winning young Norwegian baritone Audun Iversen makes his ENO debut as Eugene Onegin.

Our Review:

Keith McDonnell - 12 November 2011

Expectations ran high for ENO’s new staging of Tchaikovsky’s operatic masterpiece. Not only was it music director Ed Gardner’s first appearance of the season but this staging of Eugene Onegin had been allocated to one of the country’s most respected theatre and opera directors, Deborah Warner. Throw into the mix a mouth-watering cast and you have all the ingredients for a resounding success, so it’s good to report that a suitably elated first night audience greeted the performance with a thunderous ovation and rightly so, for this staging is yet another feather in ENO’s cap and continues their unbroken run of successes that started with Pountney’s The Passenger, and continued with Fiona Shaw’s Figaro and Barrie Kosky’s Castor and Pollux.

I can’t remember such an exciting start to a season – but what’s most telling is that all four directors mentioned above know their art in...

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