Opera North’s Eugene Onegin: A High-Stakes Collision of 1980s Soviet Realia and Tchaikovsky’s Romantic Masterpiece
Executive Overview Opera North has returned to the Leeds Grand Theatre with a provocative, visually uncompromising new production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Premiering on October 24, 2026, this co-production with Irish National Opera and Opera Queensland scales down the 19th-century aristocratic Russian milieu of Alexander Pushkin’s verse novel to the turbulent geopolitical pivot … Read more
