The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin

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The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin (2026)

Directed by Deborah Warner, Gary Halvorson

Music · 4h 05m

Tchaikovsky’s many moods—tender, grand, melancholy—are all given free rein in Eugene Onegin. The opera is based on Pushkin’s iconic verse novel, which reimagines the Byronic romantic anti-hero as the definitive bored Russian aristocrat caught between convention and ennui; Tchaikovsky, similarly, took Western European operatic forms and transformed them into an authentic and undeniably Russian work. At the core of the opera is the young girl Tatiana, who grows from a sentimental adolescent into a complete woman in one of the operatic stage’s most convincing character developments.

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Cast

T
Timur Zangiev Conductor Asmik Grigorian Tatiana
M
Maria Barakova Olga
L
Larissa Diadkova Filippyevna
S
Stanislas de Barbeyrac Lenski
I
Iurii Samoilov Eugene Onegin Alexander Tsymbalyuk Gremin

Crew

Director
Deborah Warner, Gary Halvorson
Writer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Konstantin Shilovsky

Details

Release date
2026-05-02
Runtime
4h 05m
Genres
Music
Original language
RU
Spoken languages
English, French, Russian
Countries
United States of America
Production
The Metropolitan Opera