Asmik Grigorian as Tatiana and Iurii Samoilov in the title role of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera.
Move over, Carabosse and Von Rothbart. There's a new ballet villain in town. Onegin is human, but his capacity for breaking hearts makes him scarier than the sorcerers of The Sleeping Beauty and Swan ...
When a young Russian singer suggested to Tchaikovsky in 1877 that he compose an opera based on Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin’s famous novel-in-verse, he dismissed it as a “crazy” idea. “Then, ...