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Peter Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin(200 [DVD9 NTSC]
PETER TCHAIKOVSKY
Eugen Onegin · Eugene Onegin
Peter Mattei · Anna Samuil · Ekaterina Gubanova
Joseph Kaiser · Ferruccio Furlanetto
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Philharmoniker · Daniel Barenboim
Staged by Andrea Breth
Int. Release 01 Jul. 2008
0440 073 4434 7
2 DVD-VIDEO NTSC 0440 073 4434 7 GH 2
STEREO: PCM / SURROUND: DTS 5.0 · Picture Format: 16:9
Subtitles: English/German/French/Spanish/Chinese
A co-production of ORF/UNITEL Classica in cooperation
with the Salzburg Festival
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In Andrea Breth’s staging at Salzburg we meet the titular hero as early as during the orchestral introduction, slumped in a chair watching TV, showing an eternal railway filmed from an onrushing train, a scene that recurs at the beginning of the following acts. The ageing Onegin contemplating his unsuccessful journey through life? That he has himself to blame for his failure we know all too well already and Peter Mattei makes it even clearer through his uncommonly forbidding portrayal of the haughty snob. Whatever attracted Tatyana to him? Not until the last act does he realize his mistakes and as the magnificent actor he is Peter Mattei then reveals deeper feelings formerly hidden behind the arrogant façade. Since Anna Samuil’s matured Tatyana by then is Onegin’s equal, socially and mentally, their heated confrontation becomes a real high-spot that remains on one’s retina for a long time.
The action has been moved to fairly recent times and we encounter a rather decadent Russia, short on joy, short on warmth, rich on cynicism and heavy drinking. The festive polonaise is danced by a sole sloshed man whose sense of rhythm has long since deserted him. If this is the 1980s, as the booklet notes suggest, we are probably witnessing the disintegration of the Soviet society. But there are always risks when a director transports the action to another time and in this opera the central duel scene is totally out of place in (almost) present time – an anachronism if ever there was one. The outcome of that scene is still tragic and one can’t help feeling pity for poor Lensky who dies on a stage filled with water. The strangest thing of all is when Filipyevna, who has had a strongly dominant function throughout the first act, goes to sleep in a newly dug grave. One associates this in a vague way with Erda in Siegfried – but why?
It’s short on romance as well and Tatiana’s letter scene, well sung and well acted though it is, falls flat when she types the letter to Onegin. All in all there were several things that robbed this gloomy but beautiful score of some of its magic. It was however saved by wonderful lush playing from the Wiener Philharmoniker under an evidently inspired Daniel Barenboim. We also get good singing and acting from both principals and cameos. Of the latter Ryland Davies, in the 1970s and 1980s one of the finest lyric tenors around, now in his mid-sixties was a wonderful tragicomic Triquet with the voice still in fine fettle. Ferruccio Furlanetto was a classy Prince Gremin and Ekaterina Gubanova was no mean Olga. Impressive for his sensitive acting as well as fine lyric singing was Joseph Kaiser’s Lensky. A long scar on his cheek seemed to tell us that he probably had been involved in fights over similar matters before.
Anna Samuil was young and innocent looking and her letter scene, in spite of the typewriter, was deeply affecting and Peter Mattei is possibly the leading Onegin in the world today. He dominates the stage not only through his physical appearance but even more through his expressivity and, of course, the magic beauty of his voice. I saw him on TV a couple of years ago in a French production of this opera where he was just as good.
The experienced Brian Large supervised the video production expertly but there were a couple of places that the stage became messy, whether due to the direction or the camera work I can’t tell. The sound was splendid.
Not a production that I could buy wholeheartedly but the singing and acting was certainly on a very high level.
Read more: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/Oct08/Tchaikovsky_Eugene_Onegin_0734434.htm#ixzz5lYbKHvah
Track List
DVD 1: Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
Eugene Onegin, Op.24, TH.5
Act 1
2. (Scene 1) Introduction 2:09
Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
3. Duet and Quartet. "Slikhali l vi za roschei glas nochnoi" 5:33
Anna Samuil, renée Morloc, Emma Sarkissián, Ekaterina Gubanova, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
4. Peasants' Chorus and Dance. "Bolyat moyi skori nozhenki so pokhodushki" - "Uzh kak po mostu, mostochku" 5:17
renée Morloc, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
5. Scene and Aria. "Kak ya lyublyu pod zvuki pesen etikh" - "Uzh kak po mostu, mostochku" 4:14
Anna Samuil, Ekaterina Gubanova, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
6. Scene. "Nu ti, moya vostrushka" 3:25
Anna Samuil, renée Morloc, Emma Sarkissián, Ekaterina Gubanova, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
7. "Mesdames! Ya na sebya vzyal smyelost" / "Skazhi, kotoraya Tatyana" 3:39
Anna Samuil, renée Morloc, Ekaterina Gubanova, Peter Mattei, Joseph Kaiser, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
8. Scene and Arioso. "Kak shchastliv, kak shchastliv ya!" 2:18
Anna Samuil, Ekaterina Gubanova, Peter Mattei, Joseph Kaiser, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
9. "Ya lyublyu vas" 3:37
Ekaterina Gubanova, Joseph Kaiser, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
10. Closing scene. "A, vot i vi!" 2:51
renée Morloc, Emma Sarkissián, Peter Mattei, Joseph Kaiser, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
11. (Scene 2) Introduction and Scene. "Nu, zaboltalas ya!" 8:14
Anna Samuil, Emma Sarkissián, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
12. Letter scene. "Puskai pogilabnu ya, no pryezhde" 13:21
Anna Samuil, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
13. Scene and Duet. "Akh, noch minula" 6:07
Anna Samuil, Emma Sarkissián, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
14. (Scene 3) Servant Girls' Chorus. "Dyevitsi, krasavitsi" 2:37
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
15. Scene and Aria. "Zdyes on, zdyes on, Yevgeni!" 4:27
16. "Kogda bi zhizn domashnim krugom" 4:54
Anna Samuil, Peter Mattei, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
Act 2
17. (Scene 1) Entr'acte and Waltz with Chorus. "Vot tak syurpriz!" 8:00
Peter Mattei, Joseph Kaiser, Sergej Kownir, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
18. Scene and Couplets. "Uzhel ya zasluzhil ot nasmyeshku etu?" 3:25
Ekaterina Gubanova, Peter Mattei, Joseph Kaiser, Ryland Davies, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
19. "Kakoy prekrasny etot den" 3:15
Ryland Davies, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
20. Mazurka and Scene. "Messieurs, mesdames, mesta zanyat izvolte" - "Ti ne tantsuyesh, Lenski?" 4:21
renée Morloc, Peter Mattei, Joseph Kaiser, Sergej Kownir, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
21. Finale. "V vashem dome! V vashem dome!" 5:11
Anna Samuil, renée Morloc, Ekaterina Gubanova, Peter Mattei, Joseph Kaiser, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
22. (Scene 2) Introduction, Scene and Aria. "Nu, shto zhe?" 3:18
Joseph Kaiser, Georg Nigl, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
23. "Kuda, kuda, kuda vi udalilis" 6:49
Joseph Kaiser, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
24. Duel Scene. "A, vot oni!" 6:29
Peter Mattei, Joseph Kaiser, Georg Nigl, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
Total Playing Time 1:53:31
DVD 2: Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
Eugene Onegin, Op.24, TH.5
Act 3
1. (Scene 1) Polonaise 4:52
Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
2. Scene and Aria. "I zdyes mnye skuchno!" 3:33
Peter Mattei, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
3. "Knyaginya Gremina! Smotrite!" 2:32
Anna Samuil, Peter Mattei, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
4. "Lyubvi vsye vozrasti pokorni" 6:40
Ferruccio Furlanetto, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
5. Scene and Arioso. "Itak, poidyom, tebya predstavlyu ya" - "Uzhel ta samaya Tatyana" 3:39
Anna Samuil, Peter Mattei, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
6. "O! Kak mnye tyazhelo!" / "Onegin! Ya togda molozhe" 13:51
Anna Samuil, Peter Mattei, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
Total Playing Time 35:07
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