Duration: 4 hours 5 minutes including 2 breaks
Language: Russian
Tchaikovsky’s romantic opera comes to life in Deborah Warner’s beautiful production. Asmik Grigorian returns as Tatyana, the young heroine who falls in love with Onegin. It will be shown live in cinemas on 2 May 2026.
Tchaikovsky’s many moods – tender, grand, melancholic – are given free rein in Eugene Onegin. The opera is based on Pushkin’s iconic verse novel. In a similar way, Tchaikovsky took Western European operatic traditions and transformed them into an authentically and indisputably Russian work.
At the centre of the opera is the young Tatyana, who develops from a sentimental teenager to a consummate woman in one of the most compelling character developments in opera history. Eugene Onegin had its world premiere at the Maly Theatre in Moscow in 1879, with students from the Moscow Conservatory. In 1881, it had its professional premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.