The joint production with the Sofia Opera won ovations at the premiere in Plovdiv

The Plovdiv Opera and the Sofia Opera and Ballet united their efforts to present one impressive in scale and artistic qualities production of “Eugene Onegin”. After the exceptional success at the premiere in Plovdiv on 8 April, the spectacle moves on the Sofia stage on 26 May at 19:00 h. Conductor is Luciano di Martino, and director is Vera Petrova from the Sofia Opera and Ballet.

The roles are entrusted to Evgenia Ralcheva, Violeta Radomirska, Ivaylo Mihaylov, Mark Fowler, Mihail Puliev, Elena Chavdarova-Isa, Emil Pavlov, Bozhidar Vasilev, Valeria Mircheva, Evgeny Arabadzhiev, Vladimir Nikov, Zhivko Peychev. With the participation of the chorus, the ballet and the orchestra of the Plovdiv Opera.

Tchaikovsky’s music in “Eugene Onegin” meets entirely the power and the impact of Pushkin’s poetry. It is full of heart lyric, cordiality, warmth and sincerity. Some of the scenes in the opera mark heights in Tchaikovsky’s work, as for example the entire second scene – Tatyana’s letter. Experts assert that the character of Tatyana is one of the most beautiful, complete, integral and deeply psychological characters in the entire opera literature.

The spectacle of the director Vera Petrova moves with its beauty and provokes reflections about the human relations with its profound emotional character.

She shares: “With the production of “Eugene Onegin” I would like to make the audience immerse itself in one beautiful utopia, which has nothing to do with today’s pragmatic time. A time, in which the soul trips breathless behind the people and it cannot catch up with them. On the stage Eugene Onegin experiences a retrospective, analytical dream, in which he makes an analysis of his whole life. Both central characters move in two parallel worlds, which don’t succeed to cross each other. A key moment in my conception is the conflict between the characters and the social status quo.”