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Tchaikovsky - Evgeni Onegin
(Virtuosi & CLO Production)
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Tatyana - Jurate Svedaite (Lithuania)
Onyegin - Maksim Ivanov (Russia)
Lensky - Andrew Drost (USA)
Directed by Jarosław Strzemień
(Poland)
Presented in its original Russian
language, this operatic
masterwork brings to life a great poem by Alexander Pushkin.
Fri., Nov. 28, 2008, 8PM •
Trinity-On-Main, New Britain
Sun.,
Dec. 7, 2008, 6PM
• Trinity-On-Main, New Britain...more>
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Stage Director: Jaroslaw Strzemien
Scenography: Ken Mooney
Music Director: Adrian Sylveen Mackiewicz
Cast:
Larina - mezzo-soprano - Petrie Heater
Tatyana - soprano - Jurate Svedeite Waller
Olga - contralto - Valerie Nicholsi
Filippyevna - mezzo-soprano - Margaret Tyler
Yevgeny Onyegin: Maksim Ivanov
Lensky - tenor - Andrew Drost
Gremin - bass - Laurentiu Rotaru
Commander - bass - TBA from the Chorus
Zaretsky - bass - Skip Wilson
Triquet, a Frenchman tenor - Daniel Kamalic
Guillot - Onegin's valet - silent - Herald
Time: The 1820s
Place: In the country, and in St. Petersburg
Act 1
Scene 1: The garden of the Larin country estate
Madame Larina and the nurse are sitting outside: her two daughters,
Tatyana and younger sister Olga, can be heard from inside the house. A
group of peasants sing a comic song about the serenading of a miller's
daughter. Tatyana is reading a romantic novel but her mother tells her
that real life is different. Visitors arrive: Olga's fiancé Lensky, a
young poet, and his friend Eugene Onegin, a world-weary St Petersburg
'drawing-room automaton'. Lensky introduces Onegin to the Larin family.
Onegin is initially surprised that Lensky has chosen the extrovert Olga
rather than her romantic elder sister. Tatyana for her part is immediately
and strongly attracted to Onegin.
Scene 2: Tatyana's room
Tatyana confesses to her nurse that she is in love. Left alone she writes
a letter to Onegin driven by the realization that she is fatally and
irreversibly drawn to him (the celebrated 'Letter Scene'). When the old
woman returns Tatyana asks her to arrange for the letter to be sent to
Onegin.
Scene 3: Another part of the estate
Onegin arrives to see Tatyana and give her his answer to her letter. He
explains, not unkindly, that he is not a man who loves easily and is
unsuited to marriage. Tatyana is crushed and unable to reply.
Act 2
Scene 1: The ballroom of the Larin house
Tatyana's name-day party. Onegin is irritated with the country people who
gossip about him and Tatyana, and with Lensky for persuading him to come.
He decides to revenge himself by dancing and flirting with Olga. Lensky
becomes extremely jealous. Olga is insensitive to her fiancé and
apparently attracted to Onegin. There is a diversion, while a French
neighbour called Monsieur Triquet (tenor) sings some couplets in honour of
Tatyana, after which the quarrel becomes more intense. Lensky renounces
his friendship with Onegin in front of all the guests, and challenges
Onegin to a duel, which the latter is forced, with many misgivings, to
accept.
Scene 2: On the banks of a wooded stream, early
morning
Lensky is waiting for Onegin, and sings of his uncertain fate and his love
for Olga. Onegin arrives. They are both reluctant to go ahead with the
duel but lack the power to stop it. Onegin shoots Lensky dead.
Act 3
Scene 1: At a ball in St Petersburg
Some years have passed. Onegin reflects on the emptiness of his life and
his remorse over the death of Lensky. Prince Gremin (bass) enters with his
wife, Tatyana now transformed into a grand, aristocratic beauty. Gremin
sings of his great happiness with Tatyana, and introduces Onegin to her.
Onegin is deeply impressed by Tatyana, and is fired by a desperate longing
to regain her love.
Scene 2: Reception room in Prince Gremin's house
Tatyana has received a letter from Onegin. Onegin enters and begs for her
love and her pity. Tatyana wonders why he is now attracted to her. Is it
because of her social position? Onegin is adamant that his passion is real
and absolute. Tatyana, moved to tears, reflects how near they once were to
happiness but nevertheless asks him to leave. She admits she still loves
him, but will remain faithful to her husband. Onegin implores her, but she
finally leaves him alone in his despair.
Eugene Onegin will premiere in New London on Nov. 23rd at The
Garde and repeated in New Britain on Fri. Nov. 28th and Sun. Dec. 7th at
Trinity-on-Main Performance Hall.
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