Tchaikovsky's
EUGENE ONEGIN

accommpanied by
The Candlelight Orchestra

The composition of the opera undoubtedly constituted Tchaikovsky's most profound creative engagement. "If ever music was written with sincere passion," he wrote in January 1878, "with love for the story and the characters in it, it is the music for Onegin. I trembled and melted with inexpressible delight while writing it. If the listener feels even the smallest part of what I experienced when I was composing this opera, I shall be utterly content and ask for nothing more."

Pytor ilyich Tchaikovsky's opera based upon Pushkin's pem Yevgeny Onyegin premiered at the Imperial College of Music, Lttle Theatre in Mosco, 1879. The opera tells of the young, dreamy Tatiana, who develops from a young girl into an experienced woman over the course of this lush, romantic masterpiece, and her infatuation for the aristocrat, Eugene Onegin, the nobleman, whose aristocratic facade is pierced by love, but only too late.

The music of Tchaikovsky perfectly expresses the intensity of the romance and captures brilliantly the atmosphere of both provincial and cosmopolitan Russia.

Venues hosting
performances in 2010

Wilton House,Salisbury
Sunday 3rd October

Luton Hoo,Bedfordshire
Saturday 16th October
Sunday 17th October

Jacqueline du Pre Building,
St Hilda's College, Oxford
Saturday 23rd October