Eugene Onegin
Rehearsals beginning on Northern Ireland Opera Eugene Onegin
Northern Ireland Opera begins rehearsals today for its fourth main stage production at the Grand Opera House, Belfast. Marking just over one month to go before the premiere of Eugene Onegin on the 14 September, this award-winning national opera company also unveils a stunning new photoshoot set in the woods featuring four of its principal…
A psychological journey into Onegin at Opera Holland Park
It is often said that this opera could, perhaps should, be called Tatyana rather than Onegin as she is in many ways the more central (and interesting) of the characters. It is both a strength and weakness of Julia Burbach’s direction that the title character is not only on stage far more than the opera…
Opera Park 2022 season announced
Opera Holland Park’s 2022 Season will open on 31 May 2022, with new productions of Eugene Onegin and Carmen. The second half of the 2022 Season will feature the UK premiere of Mark Adamo’s 1998 opera, Little Women, adapted from Louisa May Alcott’s classic coming-of-age novel. Postponed from 2020, Delius’s verismo opera Margot la Rouge…
Glorious singing in Onegin at Garsington
Michael Boyd’s production makes excellent use of the glass pavilion at Garsington with peasants visible as they approach the stage and similarly the pairs of lovers (or not lovers in Onegin and Tatyana’s case) walking around the outside of the auditorium. However, it was distracting having some scenes overshadowed by unnecessary although stylish additions such…