As the spotlight closes round Tatyana, turf still under foot, we realise that we’re seeing a remembered snapshot of a moment – the imprint of emotions tangled up with place. That teenage encounter, ...

The curtain comes up to reveal a lush green stage, complete with grassy carpet and a rich forest behind, designed by Rebecca Ringst. It is the garden of sisters Olga and Tatyana’s house, and the two ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. So much has been said about Eugene Onegin; and yet, as with all the great operas, there will always be more to say.

The plot of the opera takes place in Russia in the 1820s, on the Larin country estate and in St. Petersburg. Act I Scene 1: The mother and the nurse are making jam outside the Larin country house, ...

Via his friend Lensky, Eugene Onegin gets to know two sisters at a country estate: the cheerful Olga and the timid Tatyana, who falls in love with him upon first sight. When she confesses her love to ...

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.