| Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin / Fleming, Vargas, Hvorostovsky, Gergiev, Carsen [Metropolitan Opera 2007] | ![Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin / Fleming, Vargas, Hvorostovsky, Gergiev, Carsen [Metropolitan Opera 2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31NNTMfZRWL.jpg)
| Directors: Brian Large, Robert Carsen
Actors: Renee Fleming, Ramon Vargas, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Valery Gergiev, Jean-paul Fouchecourt
Studio: Decca
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (32 reviews)
Sales Rank: 7203
Format: Classical, Dvd-video, Live, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Russian (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Original Language), German (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 156 minutes
Number Of Items: 2
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 001052509
UPC: 044007432488
EAN: 0044007432488
ASIN: B000YCLRBA
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Exquisite Performance April 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Listening and watching this performance is a superb experience.
Renee Flemming, as always, shines--is beautiful and uses her magnificent voice to perfection. The opera, with so believable a story, is sure to please everyone.
 Eugene Onegin at Metropolitan Opera House Feb.2007 April 20, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Tchaikovsky's dramatic score depicting Pushkin's tale of unrequited love is movingly portrayed by Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Onegin and Renee Fleming as Tatiana. With his rich, long-phrased baritone and artful characterisation Hvorostovsky brings to life a very credible Onegin, adapting from his cool response to Tatiana's letter to the empassioned profession of love in Act 3. Fleming's Tatiana dovetails this as a convincing ingenue in Act 1 leading to the honour-bound wife of Act 3. Her warm lyrical soprano producing a moving 'letter scene'. The production cleverly presents the action as taking place in Onegin's memory, starting with him alone on stage, during the orchestral introduction, holding Tatiana's letter, All around him are autumn leaves, some falling from between the pages of the letter, suggesting a mood of love lost.
Stellar Tchaikovsky Performance April 16, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Hvorostovsky in this lead role with the Lyric Opera of Chicago this season. However, nothing would have topped the experience of seeing this live production of Eugene Onegin by the Metropolitan Opera. This production had a solid lead cast along with one of the best Tchaikovsky conductors out there. Hvorostovsky and Fleming have great chemistry on stage. The last tweleve minutes of the opera alone are worth the purchase of this dual disc. You really get wrapped up in the experience. Vargas brings tears to your eyes with his rendition of Lenski's Aria. If you're a fan of Tchaikovsky, beautiful music and a great story line, you'll love this opera. The bonus footage is a huge plus as well. I loved the orchestra rehearsal footage with Maestro Gergiev and the late great Beverly Sills interview backstage with Hvorostovsky and Fleming. This would be a great addition to any opera fans collection. Enjoy!
Eugene Onegin DVD Fleming, Hvorostovsky April 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a fabulous version of this opera. I saw the real thing in person, not with Fleming, but with Hvorostovsky, and this DVD just captures the entire experience. It is a wonderful production and should not be passed by if you even like this opera only a little - beautiful music and incredible voices.
REVIEW OF PUSHKIN'S ONEGIN March 31, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
REVIEW OF PUSHKIN'S ONEGIN
The very talented cast is up to performing with passion Pushkin's Onegin, however Elena Zaremba would have been much better suited playing Tatiania's Mother and the more youthful looking Mother, Olga.
I do feel that Carsen's staging is a big disappointment to both the cast and certainly to the audience as well. It was a great distraction from the performances. One has to ask if Michael Levine has a prejudice against presenting Russian culture in his stage scenes. Two steel pipes and a stage strewn with leaves, does not make a birch forest in a Russian countryside. And what would it have cost production to have two pillars in the backdrop and a chandelier hanging from the center stage to convey a ballroom scene in St. Petersburg? The stark eclectic staging of Onegin is something only a Stalinist could appreciate.
I had considered seeing Onegin when it came to Chicago in March but after noting it was a Carsen-Levine staging I opted to buy the DVD and am so very glad I did so. I saved over $280. The performances are great despite the drab setting they were compelled to perform in. Supreme talent outshines a mediocre production.
J. Ray
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