Vasily Barkhatov puts “Onegin”

The opera season in the Mikhailovsky Theater will be completed on July 17, 18 and 19, the premiere of Tchaikovsky’s opera Evgeny Onegin in the production of Vasily Barkhatov, the artistic director of the opera of the Mikhailovsky Theater.

Together with him, the music director and conductor Vasily Petrenko and the artist Zinovy ​​Margolin work on the performance .

“In this production, I deliberately avoid specific temporary bindings, since the historical context does not affect the dramatic swing, on the features of male and female psychology that underlie this work. - says Vasily Barkhatov. “I mean what did not allow Tatyana and Onegin to be together: at first a man is afraid to deprive himself of the future - all that he had not yet, after years, a woman is afraid to lose the present - everything that she already has.”

The main parties in the play are rehearsed by Alexander Kuznetsov, Boris Pinhasovich, Vladislav Sulimsky (Onegin); Asmik Grigoryan, Maria Litka, Tatyana Ryaguzova (Tatyana); Dmitry Korchak, Suren Maksutov (Lensky); Irina Shishkova (Olga); Ain Anger (Gremin).

Vasily Petrenko and Vasily Barkhatov are together preparing the second performance - in July 2013, they presented on the stage of the Mikhailovsky Theater the opera Wagner “Flying Dutchman”.