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[Met Performance] CID:180530
Eugene Onegin
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, December 18, 1958
In English
Eugene Onegin (27)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Konstantin šilovski/Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Review 1:
Review of Robert Sabin in Musical America
Nicolai Gedda made his first appearance in the role of Lenski at the Metropolitan in the season's first performance of "Eugene Onegin" and made a deep impression in it. It is perhaps the finest thing he has done here and it was as notable for finished and inspired acting as for hauntingly beautiful singing. Not merely in his great aria in the duel scene but elsewhere, Mr. Gedda succeeded in making this exasperating yet lovable young Russian romantic a living figure. Mr. Gedda may not trumpet out as thrilling top tones as some of his colleagues, but in artistry he equals any of them.
The rest of the cast was familiar and excellent as ever: George London (Onegin), Lucine Amara (Tatyana), Rosalind Elias (Olga), Martha Lipton (Mme. Larina), Giorgio Tozzi (Prince Gremin), Belen Amparan (Filippyevna), Louis Sgarro (A Captain), George Cehanovsky (Zaretski), and Alessio De Paolis (Triquet). The ballet also danced with sprightly charm.
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts this opera with great love and searching mastery; the production is fresh and imaginative; the music (for all its lack of dramatic punch) is lovely— a masterful score. Therefore, the fact that the house was not sold out reflects only on a lack of imagination and taste on the part of the public and not on the Metropolitan.
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Eugene Onegin
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, December 18, 1958
In English
Eugene Onegin (27)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Konstantin šilovski/Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Eugene Onegin
- George London
- Tatiana
- Lucine Amara
- Lensky
- Richard Tucker
- Olga
- Rosalind Elias
- Prince Gremin
- William Wilderman
- Larina
- Martha Lipton
- Filippyevna
- Belén Amparan
- Triquet
- Alessio De Paolis
- Captain
- Louis Sgarro
- Zaretsky
- George Cehanovsky
- Conductor
- Dimitri Mitropoulos
Review 1:
Review of Robert Sabin in Musical America
Nicolai Gedda made his first appearance in the role of Lenski at the Metropolitan in the season's first performance of "Eugene Onegin" and made a deep impression in it. It is perhaps the finest thing he has done here and it was as notable for finished and inspired acting as for hauntingly beautiful singing. Not merely in his great aria in the duel scene but elsewhere, Mr. Gedda succeeded in making this exasperating yet lovable young Russian romantic a living figure. Mr. Gedda may not trumpet out as thrilling top tones as some of his colleagues, but in artistry he equals any of them.
The rest of the cast was familiar and excellent as ever: George London (Onegin), Lucine Amara (Tatyana), Rosalind Elias (Olga), Martha Lipton (Mme. Larina), Giorgio Tozzi (Prince Gremin), Belen Amparan (Filippyevna), Louis Sgarro (A Captain), George Cehanovsky (Zaretski), and Alessio De Paolis (Triquet). The ballet also danced with sprightly charm.
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts this opera with great love and searching mastery; the production is fresh and imaginative; the music (for all its lack of dramatic punch) is lovely— a masterful score. Therefore, the fact that the house was not sold out reflects only on a lack of imagination and taste on the part of the public and not on the Metropolitan.
Search by season: 1958-59
Search by title: Eugene Onegin,
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