Eugen Onegin 2025

A Russian country estate, a deeply romantic young woman and a loveless, incompetent dandy: this is how the drama in Tchaikovsky's famous opera takes its course. The dreamy Tatyana falls in love at first sight with the unapproachable Onegin, the boyfriend of her sister's fiancé. But he brusquely rejects her proposal of love and instead flirts with the fun-loving Olga to annoy her boyfriend. This leads to a scandal and a duel at dawn. Years later, Onegin returns from abroad and learns that lost opportunities cannot be repeated.

With Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky created one of the most important portrayals of the soul in the history of opera. Based on Alexander Pushkin's verse novel of the same name, the composer brings even the faintest emotions - the trembling of first desire, fears of death and world-weariness - to life with musical and lyrical subtlety.

Following her visually powerful production of Hartmann's Simplicius Simplicissimus, director Eva-Maria Höckmayr returns to the Landestheater with a great classic of the Slavic repertoire and explores the quiet and loud tremors in the hearts of two people with her own sensitivity.