Eugene Onegin

Opera

Music by P. I. Tchaikovsky and K. S. Shilovsky
Libretto - P. I. Tchaikovsky
Stage conductor – Felix Korobov
Stage director – Alexander Titel
Stage designer – David Borovskiy

Performing in Russian.

The appearance of new "Onegin" on Bolshaya Dmitrovka is symbolic. The glorious way of the theater began with this opera. "Onegin" was necessary and it returned just in other aspect! Alexander Titel is one of the selected opera stage directors who try to resist to present theater practice. The inward is more important for him than outward, and the music style is not a hollow sound. This doesn’t mean that Titel’s performances are conservative. Inversely, he feels the pulse of time, experiments (sometimes successfully, sometimes less), but always consciously, doesn’t forgetting on whose territory he is.
The set design belongs to David Borovskiy, after his death Alexander Borovskiy realized the stage ideas of his father. The decorations of David Borovskiy were always restrained, laconic, very purposeful and figurative. In new "Onegin" they directed to the memory about Stanislavskiy’s performance staged in 1922 with laconic but considered direction which gives to the actors an opportunity to sing; with transparence of metaphors which don’t hide the style behind their seeming simplicity.
The pantomime remarkably formulated by Igor Yasulovitch generically shows the main conflict of the subject. The scene of duel fleetingly passes towards us, then the group of four leaves the stage slowly, fixing in the depth of the portico as if handing on the baton to alive personages. In the sequel pending the action the pantomime continues to live in some parallel world, appearing at the culminating moments and adding the voluminousness to what is going on.
The music sounds extremely emotionally, passionately, sometimes even nervous. The works of the conductor and the orchestra is worthy of the highest appreciation!