Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Eugene Onegin - Act III Arioso

Dmitri Hvorostovsky in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, performed at the Met, 24-2-07 (yesterday).

With Renee Fleming and Sergei Alexashkin. Valery Gergiev conducts.

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• opera
• dmitri
• hvorostovsky
• eugene
• eugen
• onegin
• tchaikovsky
• arioso
• baritone
• aria

[egrosz]

I regret that I was not there.I was in Met only once in my life,and I saw Aida.

[Gabba02]

I've been three times. I saw Rigoletto with Pons and Rost; Barbiere with Florez, and Madama Butterfly with Villaroel. This was all in 2003 (when I was living in New York). All were wonderfully staged and performed. It is a truly great opera house, with a great reputation.

[sopranoms]

Mr. Hvorostovsky makes me like Onegin=).

[echen2000]

I agree. Onegin's downfall was not his rejection of Tatyana per se but his cynicism towards love and happiness, and his inability to back out of the duel. The rejection scene is actually the only time he was honorable.

[po1212Po]

HVOROSTOVSKY IS GREAT SINGER AND EVEN MORE!

[poggiline]

Can someone tell me who did the staging? I like it very much. But Gergiev is terrible. To be honest I don´t hear any interpretation...It´s just playing notes - as always with him...

[slawayaru]

SIMPLY WONDERFUl! And GERGIEV!!! I could have guessed that it is him conducting! Great interpretation!

[durandal87]

I adore this, zounds! 5000 stars and immediately amongst my preferred videos!

[rrgallo]

I like the lighting effect...especially the contrast achieved by turning on the light at the end of the aria and showing the other guests having the time of their lifes dancing...I just love it....

[echen2000]

I agree the book and the opera affects one's interpretation differently. In the book, Onegin never asked Tatyana to leave her husband. I also liked the way Hvorostovsky played the ending. His pleas gave the impression of madness and delusion more than selfish calculation.

[BrucknerEnthusiast]

I'm not sure Onegin is honourable even here; he gives no thought to whether Tatiana is settled in a worthwhile relationship with Prince Gremin. But Onegin is a fascinating character, and ultimately a sympathetic one. Even in the 19th-century Tchaikovsky wasn't viewed as being particularly faithful to Pushkin; it's easy for different listeners to interpret the characters in contrasting ways, depending on whether they knew the original poem first, or Tchaikovsky's opera.

[plumbago]

Thank you. It kind of reminded me of monster lighting, although I don't see Onegin as a bad guy either. He just wasn't in love with her and told her so, as nicely as possible.