Watch Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin - Alexander Vedernikov, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Opera national de Paris

First performed in Moscow in 1879, Eugene Onegin is an opera in three acts drawing its inspiration from Alexander Pushkin's novel. Considered by many as the "archetypal work of Russian Romanticism", it explores the inner life of three romantic heroes: Tatiana, a Romanesque young woman, Onegin, a distant dandy hiding emptiness under affected haughtiness, and Lenski, the idealistic poet.