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Eugene Onegin Presented By: Opera Carolina |
Saturday March 17, 2012
thru Sunday March 25, 2012 |
 Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin
In Russian with English Subtitles
Based on Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin
Production Presenting Sponsor: Time Warner Cable
Opera Carolina debut production
Opera Carolina production by Peter Dean Beck
Featured ballet by members of the North Carolina Dance Theater
Highly cultured yet bored with the world, Eugene is emblematic of a sardonic longing of 19th century Russia at the height of the Romantic era. His fast friendship with the poet Lensky leads him to an ominous step down a path in which no one would return unscathed. Lensky, in love with the vivacious Olga, introduces Onegin to her older sister Tatyana. In short time, the shy country girl passionately professes her love for this worldly stranger. The ache of Onegin’s rejection of Tatyana courses through the foursome, leaving an unrelenting wake of damage. It has lost none of its edge when he sees her six years later. Now the toast of St. Petersburg society, and married to Prince Gremin, Eugene knows that the answer to his emptiness is in his deep and unanswered love for Tatyana. Finally, his search is over. In the cruel chill of irony, her dutiful rejection of him breaks his heart, and renders hers irreparable.
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The Belk Theater is the largest venue in the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, seating 2100 at its full-capacity configuration. It features state--theartequipment, production and support capabilities and can host any event - from grand opera to rock to corporate annual meetings and lectures. The theater is designed in a contemporary European horseshoe arrangement for an intimate atmosphere and world-class acoustics.
The most distant seat is less than 135 feet from the stage.
A hallmark of the theater's design is some 2,400 "points of light" in the audience chamber, part of a dazzling fiber optic network with multi-color capabilities. |
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