The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin

The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin — Plot

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.

• Release date
• May 2, 2026
• Runtime
• 245 min
• Genres
• Music
• Director
• Deborah Warner

The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin — 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