Opera in 3 acts. libretto by the composer and Konstantin Stepanovich Shilovsky, after the verse novel by Pushkin. Renée Fleming, soprano ; Elena Zaremba, contralto ; Svetlana Volkova, Laris Shevchenko, mezzo-soprano ; Ramón Vargas, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, tenor ; Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone ; Keith Miller, Richard Bernstein, Sergei Aleksashkin, bass ; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet ; Valery Gergiev, conductor. Filmed at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Feb. 2007. Video production directed by Brian Large. Features: Eugene Onegin in rehearsal ; Backstage at the Met with Beverly Sills. Digital 5.1 surround or LPCM stereo available. Program notes avid Brown, and synposis by Dmitri Makaroff in English with French and German translations, and full credits (29 p.) inserted in container.
Summary:
Tatiana falls in love with Onegin who urges her to forget him. Onegin kills a man in a duel and travels abroad. Six years later he meets Tatiana again, but she is married.
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