Opera

Eugene Onegin

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Tchaikovsky’s *Eugene Onegin* is a three-act opera drawn closely from Pushkin’s verse novel, shaped around private choices rather than grand events. It follows the detached Onegin, the idealistic poet Lensky, and Tatiana, whose youthful letter becomes the hinge of a life. The score treats regret and social code as drama, with lyrical set pieces that feel like remembered conversations. In New York, the Metropolitan Opera has long kept the work in circulation, reflecting the city’s durable appetite for Russian literature onstage.