Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0044007432488 Format: Classical, DVD-Video, Live, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Decca Manufacturer: Decca Number Of Discs: 2 Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Decca Release Date: 2007-12-18 Studio: Decca Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Rating: - Exquisite Performance
Listening and watching this performance is a superb experience.
Renee Flemming, as always, shines--is beautiful and uses her magnificent voice to perfection. The opera, with so believable a story, is sure to please everyone.
Rating: - Eugene Onegin at Metropolitan Opera House Feb.2007
Tchaikovsky's dramatic score depicting Pushkin's tale of unrequited love is movingly portrayed by Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Onegin and Renée Fleming as Tatiana. With his rich, long-phrased baritone and artful characterisation Hvorostovsky brings to life a very credible Onegin, adapting from his cool response to Tatiana's letter to the empassioned profession of love in Act 3. Fleming's Tatiana dovetails this as a convincing ingénue in Act 1 leading to the honour-bound wife of Act 3. Her warm lyrical soprano producing a moving 'letter scene'. The production cleverly presents the action as taking place in Onegin's memory, starting with him alone on stage, during the orchestral introduction, ... Read More
Rating: - Stellar Tchaikovsky Performance
I had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Hvorostovsky in this lead role with the Lyric Opera of Chicago this season. However, nothing would have topped the experience of seeing this live production of Eugene Onegin by the Metropolitan Opera. This production had a solid lead cast along with one of the best Tchaikovsky conductors out there. Hvorostovsky and Fleming have great chemistry on stage. The last tweleve minutes of the opera alone are worth the purchase of this dual disc. You really get wrapped up in the experience. Vargas brings tears to your eyes with his rendition of Lenski's Aria. If you're a fan of Tchaikovsky, beautiful music and a great story line, you'll love this opera. The bonus ... Read More
Rating: - Eugene Onegin DVD Fleming, Hvorostovsky
This is a fabulous version of this opera. I saw the real thing in person, not with Fleming, but with Hvorostovsky, and this DVD just captures the entire experience. It is a wonderful production and should not be passed by if you even like this opera only a little - beautiful music and incredible voices.
Rating: - REVIEW OF PUSHKIN'S ONEGIN
REVIEW OF PUSHKIN'S ONEGIN
The very talented cast is up to performing with passion Pushkin's Onegin, however Elena Zaremba would have been much better suited playing Tatiania's Mother and the more youthful looking Mother, Olga.
I do feel that Carsen's staging is a big disappointment to both the cast and certainly to the audience as well. It was a great distraction from the performances. One has to ask if Michael Levine has a prejudice against presenting Russian culture in his stage scenes. Two steel pipes and a stage strewn with leaves, does not make a birch forest in a Russian countryside. And what would it have cost production to have two pillars in the backdrop ... Read More
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- Exquisite Performance
- Eugene Onegin at Metropolitan Opera House Feb.2007