keskiviikko 19. huhtikuuta 2017

Eugene Onegin in the Finnish National Opera, the 18th of April, 2017


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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