Great performances (WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.))
Notes:
Opera in 3 acts. Dimitri Hvorostovsky, baritone (Eugene Onegin) ; Renée Fleming, soprano (Tatiana) ; Ramó́n Vargas, tenor (Lenski) ; Elena Zaremba, contralo (Olga) ; Sergei Aleksashkin, bass (Prince Gremin) ; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet ; Valery Gergiev, conductor ; host, Mikhail Baryshnikov. Libretto by the composer and Konstantin Stepanovich Shilovsky, after the poem by Pushkin. Filmed live at the Metropolitain Opera, New York, February 2007. Originally broadcast on the PBS series Great Performances. Program notes by Alexander Poznansky and synopsis laid in container. Special features: Eugene Onegin : in rehearsal at the Met (15:39); Backstage at the Met : Beverly Sills interviews Renée Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky (3:05).
Contents:
DVD 1: Act 1 ; Special features -- DVD 2: Acts 2 and 3.
Summary:
Tchaikovsky's most popular opera, the tale of a lovelorn girl and a jaded aristocrat.
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