Eugene Onegin — HDVDARTS

Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin opera to libretto by the composer and K. Shilovsky based on the verse novel by Alexander Pushkin. Produced by Deborah Warner and directed by Fiona Shaw 2013 at the Met. Stars Mariusz Kwiecien (Onegin), Anna Netrebko (Tatiana), Piotr Beczala (Lenski), Oksana Volkova (Olga), Alexei Tanovitski (Gremin), Elena Zaremba (Madame Larina), Larissa Diadkova (Filippyevna), David Crawford (A Captain), Richard Bernstein (Zaretski), and John Graham-Hall (Triquet). Valery Gergiev conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus (Chorus Master Donald Palumbo), and Ballet. Sets by Tom Pye; costumes by Chloe Obolensky; lighting by Jean Kalman; video designs by Ian William Galloway and Finn Ross; choreography by Kim Brandstrup. Directed for TV by Gary Halvorson; music producer was Jay David Saks. Supervising Producers were Mia Bongiovanni and Elena Park; Producers were Louisa Briccetti and Victoria Warivonchik. Sung in Russian. Released 2014, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

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Feb 25. We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beach opera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+. Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. We try to help out by providing aids not included in the keepcase materials: an accurate libretto and a list of segments in the opera with correct Opus Arte time stamps. Good luck!

We have some other good grades with an A for the recent Met The Pearl Fishers (Les pêcheurs de perles) and a B- for an earlier The Pearl Fishers from Naples. Also, we recently gave an A- for the new Don Quixote from the Vienna State Ballet.