parterre box

27 comments

• Matt Circle says:

  This is horrendous. Especially after seeing the Met production.

  on October 27, 2008 at 4:52 PM
• Devil's Cub says:

  Looks like a night at my dad’s bar on Christopher Street in the 1970s. Better music though. (but the dancing isn’t that much better.)

  Can’t picture Hvorostovsky in this surrounding at all.

  on October 27, 2008 at 9:05 PM
• Charles says:

  It’s more “homo” than “erotic.”

  In fact, it’s more “homo” than anything I’ve seen while living in West Hollywood for several years.

  on October 27, 2008 at 11:06 PM
• Hans Lick says:

  Bunbury — Mariusz and Eric are old friends from the Lindemann Young Artists Program at the Met, so I’m sure they’ll manage things just fine.

  on October 27, 2008 at 11:47 PM
• Hans Lick says:

  … you know, once I realized it was Mariusz, I stopped paying any attention at all to the ballet, and then the whole thing made perfect sense. It’s all in his head. So we’re not supposed to see how badly they dance…

  … so how did they do the duel? and the ending?

  on October 27, 2008 at 11:58 PM
• fxg says:

  there is no duel; One revolver is placed on the bed and when Lenski opens himself for Onegin, Onegin takes the revolver and shoots Lenski.

  Very conservative ending; Onegin begs for Tatjana, Tatjana refuses and Onegin remains alone and desperate.

  To make it clear: The production is imo very bad, as it is staged as by an amateur. However, don’t blame it to this scene, as this is probably the brightest moment in the whole production.

  However, great conducting by Kent Nagano and great singing by Kwiecien, Breslik and Tamar Iveri.

  on October 28, 2008 at 3:53 AM
• Cocky Kurwenal says:

  I’ll bet Tamar Iveri’s Tatyana is a wonderful role assumption. I think she is a really lovely and very gifted singer. She saved the Don Carlo in Paris earlier this year, in my view. She wasn’t the only good singer in the cast, but she was the only one with enough dramatic instincts to do SOMETHING in the dreadful production that made it look as if the singers hadn’t been directed at all.

  on October 28, 2008 at 5:19 AM