Deservedly still Tchaikovsky’s most celebrated opera, Eugene Onegin astounds with angelic music that never ceases to amaze. This production by Ted Huffman, in his main stage Royal Opera debut, ...

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 ...

The Paris Opera will launch its 2025–26 season at the iconic Palais Garnier with a landmark event: the directorial debut of acclaimed British actor Ralph Fiennes, presenting a new staging of ...

This new year the Royal Opera House is staging both Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and the ballet Onegin, which utilises the composer’s various concertos, waltzes and mazurkas. Although they follow the ...

She came and she gave without taking, but he sent her away, and boy, does he regret it: Barry Manilow could have stolen the plot of “Mandy” from Tchaikovsky’s 1879 opera “Eugene Onegin.” Seattle Opera ...

The story is told within the context of female lead Tatyana’s memories from days gone by. Dancer, choreographer and teacher Rosy Sanders plays a version of Tatyana as an old lady, who silently steals ...

Director Deborah Warner has described the challenge of staging Eugene Onegin as legendary but she has risen to it with extraordinary aplomb, and her entirely unpretentious new production gels ...

Far worse things happen to characters in other operas by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, but “Eugene Onegin” sweeps the competition for its depiction of crippling interpersonal damage. By the time Ralph ...

There shouldn’t be a problem with modern dress – mostly stylish and colour-co-ordinated from costume designer Astrid Klein – even if here it doesn’t give us a sense of place (Hyemi Shin's grey stage ...

The Grange Festival’s strikingly sophisticated new production offers a subtly different take on Tchaikovsky’s great opera Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former ...