Royal Ballet: Onegin satellite
The Royal Ballet will present Eugene Onegin via satellite on May 5, with soprano Asmik Grigorian announced in the heroine role — a notable cast highlight for the spring ballet season (x.com).
The screening being booked into Royal Ballet & Opera cinema slots is actually The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, directed by Deborah Warner and presented through the Met’s Live in HD series. (metopera.org) Timur Zangiev conducts this staging; principal cast lists include Igor Golovatenko (Onegin), Maria Barakova (Olga), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Lenski), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Prince Gremin) and Stephanie Blythe (Filippyevna). (metopera.org) The Met transmitted the production live to cinemas on Saturday, May 2, 2026, while many UK venues have scheduled local satellite/cinema screenings of the transmission on Tuesday 5 May at 18:00 as part of the Royal Ballet & Opera Cinema Season. (metopera.org) Runtime is listed at about 245 minutes (approximately 3 hours 45 minutes) including two intermissions, and the cinema presentations are sung in Russian with English streamtext captions. (rbo.org.uk) US distribution for the Live in HD cinema run is handled via Fathom Entertainment, which shows early-May cinema dates (the Met’s Live in HD calendar includes May 2 and additional cinema playdates in the first week of May). (fathomentertainment.com)
