Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin has long been one of my favorite operas. So I looked forward to an acclaimed production of Eugene Onegin by Canadian director Robert Carson that is currently ...

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This tragic opera's lightest moment is a diverting Polish dance that opens Act III. Tchaikovsky contrasts his music's gaiety with anti-hero Onegin's despair: he's killed his best friend.

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Some productions prove magnificent on their first outing, and then never quite repeat the magic in subsequent revivals. Others do not enjoy such great success initially, and yet come into their own ...

Move over, Carabosse and Von Rothbart. There's a new ballet villain in town. Onegin is human, but his capacity for breaking hearts makes him scarier than the sorcerers of The Sleeping Beauty and Swan ...