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  • Venue Royal Opera House, London
  • Performance dates Booking to 14 October 2024
  • Running time Approx 3 hours and 30 minutes (including intervals)
  • Age guidelines 8+

The Royal Opera presents a new production of Tchaikovsky’s romantic opera Eugene Onegin.

Memory, longing and desire intertwine in this powerful new staging of Pushkin’s bittersweet tale.

Acclaimed American director Ted Huffman (4.48: Psychosis) makes his Royal Opera House main stage debut with this thrilling new production of Eugene Onegin.

Promising to blur the boundaries between memory, longing and desire, Gordon Bintner stars in the title role, alongside Kristina Mkhitaryan as Tatyana, Liparit Avetisyan as Lensky and Avery Amereau as Olga.

Henrik Nánási conducts, drawing out the many, and often conflicting, emotions at the heart of Tchaikovsky’s most popular opera.

Eugene Onegin is playing at the Royal Opera House in London from 24 September to 14 October 2024.

Tatyana spends her days lost in the world of romantic books, while to her carefree sister Olga, love is just a game. When Olga’s admirer, the poet Lensky, arrives at their country estate with the brooding Eugene Onegin, sparks fly. Tatyana immediately falls for Onegin and declares her love for him in a letter. Onegin rejects her, telling her that he is not ready for marriage. Heartbroken, Tatyana is forced to put on a brave face at her own birthday party, and matters worsen when Onegin begins flirting with Olga. Lensky is outraged and challenges Onegin to a duel, with deadly consequences. 

Years later, Onegin and Tatyana meet again at a ball in St Petersburg. Haunted by grief and regret, Onegin realises he has made a terrible mistake. But does Tatyana still feel the same? 

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Who is in the cast of Eugene Onegin - The Royal Opera?

Starring Gordon Bintner as Eugene Onegin, Kristina Mkhitaryan as Tatyana, Liparit Avetisyan as Lensky and Avery Amereau as Olga

Conducted by Henrik Nánási

Who are the creative team of Eugene Onegin - The Royal Opera?

Music by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Libretto by Konstantin Stepanovich Shilovsky and Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky

Based on Alexander Pushkin’s novel

Directed by Ted Huffman, set designer Hyemi Shin, costume designer Astrid Klein, lighting designer D. M. Wood, movement director Lucy Burge

 

Important Notes

Language: Sung in Russian with English surtitles. Captions and translations in English will be displayed on screens above the stage and around the auditorium.

Venue Information

Royal Opera House , Bow Street, London, WC2E 9DD

Nearest Tube or Train: Covent Garden (Piccadilly line), Leicester Square (Piccadilly line, Northern line)

Nearest Buses: 1, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 26, 68, 76, 77a, 91, 168, 171, 176, 188, 501(southbound only), 505, 521, X68 all go to the Aldwych.

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Eugene Onegin - The Royal Opera is playing at the Royal Opera House in London
The running time of Eugene Onegin - The Royal Opera is Approx 3 hours and 30 minutes (including intervals)
The age recommendations for Eugene Onegin - The Royal Opera are: 8+
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No, sorry, Eugene Onegin - The Royal Opera has now completed its run and is no longer on sale.

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