EUGENE ONEGIN
The Finnish National
Opera’s latest version of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin was naturally full
of beautiful music, but I have to admit that from the point of view of human
emotions it was not a bullseye. The storyline is, of course, rather silly and
most of the time the ranging emotions aren’t exactly realistic, but this
version was really devoid of feelings.
I did not particularly
like Marco Arturo Marelli’s direction and setting (also his) was a bit weird
tilted space, but costumes by Dagmar Niefield were good.
Fortunately in
addition to the beautiful music there were a couple of highlights in the opera.
Lensky’s aria, performed by Jussi Myllys, was full of emotion and he received
one of the strongest applause of the evening from the audience and justly so.
His pronunciation of Russian will still require some work, but the strong emotions
of Lensky preparing to die were believable and heartbreaking.
The second fine moment
was Gremin’s aria, sung by Jyrki Korhonen. When he sang ”Я безумно люблю Татьяну” (I love Tatyana madly), it was easy to believe. And when he also
pronounces Russian really well, I truly once again wondered, why an earth is
Tatyana pining away after an idiot like Onegin, when she has such a treasure of
a husband. Well, I suppose you can never argue taste!
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