from Artha Kass
Sunday, October 6, 1 p.m., Orcas Center
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. MEDIA photo by Lee Bromfield
Give in to the epic romance of opera streamed live from the Met in HD to Orcas Center. Celebrate the opening of the new season with a champagne reception and Tchaikovsky’s fateful romantic tragedy Eugene Onegin on Sunday, October 6 at 1:00 pm.
The eighth season of Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live transmissions to over 1,950 movie theaters in 64 countries, begins at Orcas Center this Sunday with acclaimed English director Deborah Warner’s new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, conducted by Valery Gergiev.
Anna Netrebko opens her third consecutive Met season in her company role debut as Tatiana, the naïve heroine from Pushkin’s classic novel. Mariusz Kwiecien portrays the self-confident title character, in a much-admired interpretation he has sung in many of the world’s leading opera houses, and Piotr Beczala reprises his acclaimed performance as Onegin’s friend-turned-rival, Lenski. Due to an unexpected surgical procedure, Warner was unable to travel to the Met to stage Eugene Onegin, which is being directed here by her longtime collaborator Fiona Shaw.
The Sunday Telegraph praised its “mixture of haunting visual and emotional impact: cutting straight to the heart of the work, Warner shows how Onegin is simultaneously about two colliding Russian societies—rustic provincialism and cosmopolitan decadence—and three wasted lives.”
“The evening belonged to Netrebko, who reinforced the heroine’s pathos with limpid tone, expressive point, dynamic sensitivity and unexpected restraint.” —Financial Times
Tickets for Eugene Onegin from The Met: Live in HD are $18 for adults, $13 students, $2 off for Orcas Center members, and may be purchased online, by calling 376-2281 ext. 1, or visiting the Orcas Center Box Office open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from noon – 4 pm. For more information about Orcas Center 2013 season events, please visit Orcas Center website.
