On March 7, 1895, the Nice Opera House presented the first performance in France of Eugene Onegin, this immense success by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, intended for the students of the Moscow Conservatory, which he had completed in 1879 while on vacation in San Remo, on the Italian Riviera.
One hundred twenty-two years later, the Nice lyric theater is reprogramming this masterpiece, which will be performed four times next February.
Inspired by the verse novel by Alexander Pushkin, this opera is a nostalgic evocation of a fading world whose characters are animated by the memory of their happy youth. And all are swept away in a fatal maelstrom, made of broken love raised to devastating passion and provocative pride pushed to fatal arrogance.
To serve this work, directed here by Alain Garichot, the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra will, for the occasion, be conducted by Daniel Kawka.
As for the Opera Choir, it will be led by its director Giulio Magnanini.
The role of Eugene Onegin will be played by Andrei Zhilikhovsky, Lenski by Igor Morozov, Prince Gremin by Oleg Tsibulko, Tatyana by Marie-Adeline Henry, Olga by Julie Robart-Gendre, Madame Larina by Doris Lamprecht, Filippievna by Karine Ohanyan, and Monsieur Triquet by Thomas Morris.
