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SPRING 2007 TOUR 

Eugene Onegin - Tchaikovsky 

"The whole thing sheds more light on Tchaikovsky's masterpiece than any other recent UK production....the opera is beautifully, urgently conducted by Michael Rosewell."
The Guardian

"Amanda Echalaz singing Tatiana is destined for great things.  She sings with the sort of honest voice that comes from the core of every emotion she wished to convey..sensational"
Bloomberg News

ETO's new production of Eugene Onegin - Lensky before the duel

Click here to experience the stirring dance music of the polonaise from the opening of act three of Eugene Onegin


Passionate where the great poem is ironic, Tchaikovsky’s opera has at its centre the idealised provincial girl Tatiana and the cold hearted, ‘Europeanised’ aristocrat with whom she falls in love, Eugene Onegin. Between them is another lonely, idealised figure – the poet, Lensky, who Onegin kills in a duel in the snow, changing all their lives forever.

Amanda Echalaz, who as Jenufa, Alcina and Fiordiligi won many new fans for ETO, makes her debut in the role Tatiana, a heroine loved unreservedly by both Pushkin and Tchaikovsky. Acclaimed baritone Roland Wood and tenor Michael Bracegirdle (Cavaradossi in ETO’s Spring ’06 Tosca) make their own debuts as Onegin and Lensky, and mezzo sopranos Marie Elliot, Clare Shearer and Linda Hibberd as Tatiana’s family and Geoffrey Moses as her husband, Prince Gremin
ETO’s Associate Conductor Michael Rosewell conducts this new production by ETO General Director James Conway, featuring period costume and dance.

Music Clip: ©2001 Chandos Records - Sir Charles Mackerras, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera 
Music clip courtesy of Chandos Records