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'Above all, Sir Charles is aware of the sheer beauty of the composer's orchestral writing... Bardon is a delightfully keen Olga. Bainbridge an experienced and loving nurse. Connell contributes an eloquent account of Gremin's great aria. Gedda lavishes all the artistry he once brought to Lensky on Triquet's couplets.'
The Sunday Telegraph

'The outstanding features are the conducting of Sir Charles Mackerras, who captures the melancholy, passion and colour of the music, and the Onegin of Thomas Hampson, sung with a persuasive mixture of hauteur and brooding Russian languor. His diction is impeccable....'
CHAN 3042

Opera in three acts
Text by the composer & Konstantin Shilovsky
after Alexander Pushkin's verse novel Eugene Onegin English translation by David Lloyd-Jones

The Cast

Thomas Hampson, baritone - Eugene Onegin
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano - Tatyana
Neil Rosenshein, tenor - Lensky
John Connell, bass - Prince Gremin
Richard van Allan, bass - A Captain/Zaretsky
Nicolai Gedda, tenor - Monsieur Triquet
Linda Finnie, mezzo-soprano - Madame Larina
Elizabeth Bainbridge, mezzo-soprano - Filippyevna
Patricia Bardon, mezzo-soprano - Olga
Chorus of Welsh National Opera
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Sir Charles Mackerras - conductor

Recorded in Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
29 June - 6 July 1992

Eugene Onegin
Producer - John Fraser, Sound engineer - Mark Vigars, Assistant engineer - Mark Rogers
31 July 2010