DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT THIS EVENT
Time: 14h00 - 17h30 on May 25th 2019
Venue: Ca Phe Thu Bay Tre, 264A Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, ward 8, district 3, Ho Chi Minh city
Suggested donation: 50.000 VND. ALL proceeds from donation will be used to cover translation fees, subtitles editing and preparation of relevant materials for the programme.
Tchaikovsky’s many moods — tender, grand, melancholy — are all given free rein in Eugene Onegin, the composer’s lush adaptation of Alexander Pushkin’s iconic text of Russian literature. The great poet re-imagined the Byronic model of the restless 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 Tatyana, who grows from a sentimental adolescent into a complete woman in one of the operatic stage’s most convincing character developments. Always popular in Russia, Eugene Onegin stands at the heart of the international repertory and commands as much admiration among experts as affection among newcomers.
Deborah Warner’s new production of Tchaikovsky’s tragic romance, directed by Fiona Shaw, opened the Met’s 2013–14 season. Anna Netrebko stars as Tatyana, the young woman whose impulsive declaration of love is coolly rejected by Mariusz Kwiecień’s Onegin — with unexpected consequences years later. Piotr Beczała is Lensky, the friend-turned-rival Onegin kills in a duel. Oksana Volkova (Olga), Elena Zaremba (Madame Larina), and Alexei Tanovitski (Prince Gremin) co-star, with Russian maestro Valery Gergiev conducting.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5-0mXebdxE
(Source: Fanpage of Ca Phe Thu Bay Tre)
