Our 2025-2026 MET Live in HD season comes to an end with the lyrical Eugene Onegin. Tchaikovsky’s many moods—tender, grand, melancholy—are all given free rein in this evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner.
Synopsis:
The story takes place at a country estate near St Petersburg at the end of the 18th century. Madame Larina has two daughters, Olga and Tatiana. The first is light-hearted and in love with a young poet, Lensky. The second is dreamy and melancholic. Lensky introduces his friend, Onegin, to Tatiana who immediately falls for the blasé young man. However, he rejects her love. Apparently insensitive, Onegin goes as far as flirting with Olga at a country ball. This only makes Tatiana more miserable and Lensky, mad with jealousy, challenges Onegin to a duel in which he dies. Several years pass. Eugene Onegin finally understands his feelings for Tatiana, but it is too late – she is married to Prince Gremin. Onegin confesses his love to Tatiana and his regrets about the past, but she rejects him and remains faithful to her husband. Onegin is left alone with his despair.
Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine and Baritone Igor Golovatenko is the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late.
This encore presentation is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.
