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Eugen Onegin State Opera Vienna - Wien Fri 22.May 2026 labels.sale_over replace me !Eugen Onegin State Opera Vienna - Wien Sun 24.May 2026 labels.sale_over replace me !Eugen Onegin State Opera Vienna - Wien Thu 28.May 2026 labels.sale_over replace me !Eugen Onegin State Opera Vienna - Wien Sun 31.May 2026 labels.sale_over replace me !The introverted Tatyana falls in love with the suave Eugene Onegin and - against convention - dares to take the first step: she writes him a love letter.
However, he coolly rejects her. When her sister's fiancé dies at Onegin's hands on her name day, he flees society. Years later, the dandy meets Tatyana again, who is now married. Now he suddenly discovers his intense affection for her. Tatyana, however, remains faithful to her husband - Prince Gremin - and rejects the desperate Eugene Onegin, even though she loves him.
Eugene Onegin is the best-known and most internationally performed opera by Russian composer Piotr I. Tchaikovsky. For conductor Tomáš Hanus, who conducted the premiere of the current production, the musical keyword of this work is "intimacy". It is no wonder, says the conductor, "that Tchaikovsky chose 'Lyrical Scenes' rather than 'Opera' as the title of the work and thus gave us a clue as to how we should read this work: carefully, sensitively, with a precise eye." The fact that Tchaikovsky wanted to dispense with grand pomp is clear from the very first bars of the opera, which do not ring in the evening like a fanfare, but instead smoothly introduce the atmosphere of the first act. Another special feature is that Tchaikovsky used dynamic instructions in the score very sparingly. This gives the performers freedom that they would not find in the scores of Richard Strauss or Giacomo Puccini.Tchaikovsky was due to conduct the premiere in Hamburg in 1892 - but he canceled at short notice. A young, promising conductor stepped in: Gustav Mahler, then 1st Kapellmeister in Hamburg. tchaikovsky later called him "simply brilliant". Mahler, in turn, was so fascinated by the opera Eugene Onegin that some 15 years later, on November 19, 1897, he chose it as the first premiere of his official tenure as the newly appointed director of the Vienna Hopfoper. With tremendous success, by the way!(Source: wiener-staatsoper.at)
