Season 2019/2020

Evgenij Onegin

Music Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij

Lyric Scenes in Three Acts
Libretto by the composer and K.S. Shilovsky, after Aleksandr Pushkin’s verse novel

First performed, Malïy Theatre, Students of the Moscow Conservatory, March 29, 1879

Length: about 3h 10' - I Act 80' - intermission 30' - II and III Act 80'

Conductor

James Conlon

Director

Robert Carsen

CHORUS MASTER Roberto Gabbiani
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Peter McClintock
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER Michael Levine
LIGHTING DESIGNER Jean Kalman
CHOREOGRAPHER Serge Bennathan

CAST

MADAME LARINA Irida Dragoti**

TATYANA Maria Bayankina

OLGA Yulia Matochkina

FILIPYEVNA Anna Viktorova

EUGENE ONEGIN Markus Werba

LENSKY Saimir Pirgu

PRINCE GREMIN John Relyea

ZARETSKY Andrii Ganchuk**

TRIQUET Andrea Giovannini

A COMMANDER Arturo Espinosa*

* after the project “Fabbrica” Young Artist Program of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
** graduated “Fabbrica” Young Artist Program of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Orchestra, Chorus and Corps de Ballet

A Canadian Opera Company production
Production premiered by the Metropolitan Opera in New York City

Sung in Russian with Italian and english surtitles

We thank Shestakov family for generous support for the roles of Onegin, Larina and Zareckij.