Production Dates:
11th March - 18th March 2013
Production Venue:
Royal Academy of Music
Production Role:
Assistant Stage Manager
Producer:
Royal Academy of Music
Director:
John Ramster
Choreographer:
Conductor:
Jane Glover
Musical Director:
Designer:
Adirian Lingford
Lighting Designer:
Jake Wiltshire
Sound Designer:
Eugene Onegin
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s best-loved opera is based on Alexander Pushkin’s verse drama of the same name. It provided Tchaikovsky with an opportunity to present everyday and authentic experiences on the stage, in contrast to the epic narratives that characterised much European opera of the time. Eugene Onegin quickly became a firm favourite with Russian audiences. Within a decade of its 1879 premiere it had been performed over one hundred times in St Petersburg.
Tchaikovsky’s deep sympathy for his heroine Tatyana is shown in the tenderness of her music. Her yearning string motif opens the opera and it gains full expression in her letter aria in Act I – one of the most intense solo scenes ever written for the soprano voice. In Kasper Holten’s powerful new production, the turbulence of Tatyana and Onegin’s youth is contrasted with the self-realisation they gain in later life. The staging foregrounds the power of memory and the often futile longing to undo past mistakes that comes with experience.
Cast & Creatives
Cast
Tatyana: Tereza Gevorgyan | Sara Lian Owen
Olga: Fiona Mackay | Irina Loskova
Madame Larina: Sarah Shorter | Anna Harvey
Fillipyevna: Rozanna Madylus | Angharad Lyddon
A Serf: Gwilym Brown | Gwilym Furness
Lenskey: Stephen Aviss | Samuel Furness
Eugene Onegin: Ross Ramgobin | Gareth John
Captain: Samuel Queen | Samuel Pantcheff
Monsieur Triquet: Stuart Jackson | Thomas Elwin
Zaretsky: Samuel Pantcheff | Samuel Queen
Guillot: Pablo Strong
Gremin: Nicholas Crawley | Andri Bjӧrn Rόbertsson
Chorus
Soprano: Laura Cheetman | Charlotte Derry | Sarah - Jane Lewis | Rhiannon Llewellyn | Krystl Ride | Jenny Stafford | Meghan Taylor
Mezzo - Soprano: Sarah Baillie | Eirlys Myfanwy Davies | Kate Howden | Jane Monari | Rose Setten | Helen Stanley
Tenor: Gwilym Bowen | Oliver Johnston | Martins Smaukstelis | Bradley Smith | Pablo Strong | Joseph Thomspon
Barritone/Bass: Shaun Aquilina | René Bloice-sanders | Tristan Hambleton | Ji LuHenry Neil | Alex Otterburn | Danny Standing | Jonathan Stirland
Orchestra
1st Violin: Theodor Küng | Caroline Sharp | James Wilson | Claire Sledd | Avril Freemantle | Heather Stewart
2nd Violin: Katherine Waller | Morten Lyngs | Enrique Santiago Cabrero | Julianna Traicoff | Irma Vastakaite | Felix Bäckstrӧm
Viola: Joe Bronstein | Knarika Karapetjana | Kuei-Mien Chang | Bettina Racz
Cello: Auriol Evans | Pedro Da Silva | Joseph Bulter | Tatiana Chernyshova
Double Bass: Andrew Vickers | Joesph Bentley
Flute: Hyrjoon Ahn | Chelsea Cowan | Suzannah Watson | Sally Minter
Piccolo: Ivan Alekhin | Anja Stukalenko-Kreuzer
Oboe: Hannah Morgan | Yahya Al-Dhanki | Chu Sun | Raymond Cinpoesu
Clarinet: Ben Westlake | Joesph Hyung Sup Lim | Chikako Kondon | Ivan Cheng
Bassoon: Alice Quayle | Hannah Rankin | Jemima Oosthuizen | Ana Docolin
Horn: Jonathan Farey | Elliot Seidman | Dewi Jones | Rebecca Weldon
Trumpet: Victoria Rule | Danielle Audley-Wiltshier
Trombone: Christopher Augustine | Quinn Parker | Courtney Brown
Timpani: Tom Lee
Harp: Heather Wrighton
Creatives
Director: John Ramster
Designer: Adrian Lingford
Lighting Designer: Jake Wiltshire
Choreographer: Victoria Newlyn
Production Manager: Ted Murphy
Stage Manager: Ray Bingle
Deputy Stage Manager: Claire Litton
Assistant Stage Manager: Christopher Silvester
Assistant Director: Dafydd Hall Williams
Costume Supervisor: Michelle Bradbury
Costume Assistant: Myra Hanet | Jordan Goertz
Running Wardrobe and Dresser: Laura Cottingham
Wigs and Make-up Supervisor: Jaki Airey
Wigs and Make-up Assistant: Michelle Young
Theatre Technician: Rebecca Desmond
Lx Technicians: Seb Blaber | Aaron Dootson
Stage Technician: Rob Pearce
Guest Coach: Julian Reynolds
Assistant Conductor/Chorus Director: Mark Austin
Répétiteurs: Maite Aguirre | Mark Austin | Chad Kelly | Maya Soltan | Rebecca Taylor
Principal Operatic Coaches: Mary Hill | Ingrid Surgenor
Operatic Coaches: Alexander Crowe | Audrey Hyland | Iain Ledingham | Jonathan Papp | Michael Pollock | Susanna Stranders
Russian Language Coaches: Ludmilla Andrew
Orchestra Manager: Liz Williams