Recording of the live broadcast of 14 February, available only until 21 February

After almost 15 years, Tchaikovsky's masterpiece exploring themes of unrequited love returns to the Teatro Real. A new production by Christof Loy will commemorate the 225th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin, author of the original novel of the same name.

The story of love and rejection between Eugene and Tatiana, which ends in a fatal duel after Eugene regrets rejecting his beloved. The opera explores themes of unrequited love and the repercussions of impulsive decisions.  

Perhaps the petit-bourgeois - almost Chekhovian - realism that is one of the strengths of this title is due not so much to a deliberate aesthetic shift, but to the composer's adaptation to relatively modest conditions, given that Eugene Onegin was composed for a young student company at the Moscow Conservatory. Based on a novel in verse by Aleksandr Pushkin and premiered at this institution in March 1879, Eugene Onegin makes no claim to historical costumes or exotic or ostentatious sets; its action - very limited - unfolds mainly through simple conversations, but instead peers inside its characters with an intensity that is as truthful as it is disturbing. Eugene Onegin will arrive in a sober production by Christof Loy, which encloses its protagonists in a minimalist, elegant and claustrophobic space onto which they will project - as if onto a blank page - their neuroses and emotional wounds.