The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin

(2026)

★ 5 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Music

Year: 2026

Runtime: 245 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Deborah Warner, Gary Halvorson

Cast: Timur Zangiev, Asmik Grigorian, Maria Barakova, Larissa Diadkova, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Iurii Samoilov, Alexander Tsymbalyuk

Plot

Tchaikovsky’s many moods—tender, grand, melancholy—are all given free rein in Eugene Onegin. The opera is based on Pushkin’s iconic verse novel, which reimagines the Byronic romantic anti-hero as the definitive bored Russian aristocrat caught between convention and ennui; Tchaikovsky, similarly, took Western European operatic forms and transformed them into an authentic and undeniably Russian work. At the core of the opera is the young girl Tatiana, who grows from a sentimental adolescent into a complete woman in one of the operatic stage’s most convincing character developments.