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At the Paris Opera, Ralph Fiennes Brings Refined Pleasures to 'Eugene Onegin'

Summary by Le Monde
The new production of Tchaikovsky's lyrical masterpiece received a standing ovation at the Palais Garnier, notably showcasing Ukrainian tenor Bogdan Volkov as Lensky.

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Lyric: Ralph Fiennes aux manettes d'un Eugène Oneguine amazement, sublimely sung. With the baguette, Semyon Bychkov magnifies the imperishable score of Tchaikovsky. Long-time fervent melomanian, British actor, filmmaker and producer Ralph Fiennes comes, at 63, to record his name as an international star in the concert of a high tradition: that which (from Visconti to Chéreau, from Bergman to Pasolini, from Zefirelli to Haneke, from Tarkovski to …

On the stage of the Opéra Garnier in Paris, the British actor Ralph Fiennes – known worldwide and above all for his role as a naughty sorcerer in Harry Potter – tries to stage and book, as a good pupil, a colorful and harmless Eugene Oneguine.

Photo Guergana Damianova At the Opéra Garnier, the new production of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece by Ralph Fiennes reveals itself to be a classic and classy one that is not without beauty. The drama is carried with more intensity by the musical direction of Semyon Bychkov. In view of the geometric abstraction that favoured the radically sleek production of Willy Decker, who entered the repertoire of the Paris National Opera in 1995 and resumed seve…

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Sceneweb broke the news in on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
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