The stars in this rating are all down to the musical quality of the performance and the abilities of the singers – a leading ...
Patrick Nolan’s thoughtful staging for Opera North shifts Pushkin’s story forward to explore the transition from Soviet state to elitist excess ...
Wingate’s Tatyana and Walker’s conducting were outstanding – but Nolan’s misguided concept left Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece ...
Masterpieces can withstand all kinds of interference, and Tchaikovsky’s magnificent romantic music-drama about the troubled ...
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Love and passion that is now unattainable are at the center of Tchaikovsky’s tormented Eugene Onegin, a work taken from the homonymous verse by Pushkin brought to the stage in the wonderful ...
Rupert Christiansen was the opera critic and arts features writer for The Telegraph between 1995 and 2020. He is the author of several books of cultural history including Romantic Affinities, Paris ...
It has taken more than two decades for the Washington National Opera to stage Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (★★★★), and as such there will many so happy to see it, they won’t care what the critics say.
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As any ballerina worth her salt knows, appearing as Tatyana in John Cranko’s Onegin is an irresistible, ...
It helps that I’ve seen Onegin three times since the Autumn (a not-so hidden gem then, if you’re paying attention): Deborah Warner’s traditional-dress production at ENO; the small-scale English ...