Met: Asmik Grigorian debuts Tatiana
Soprano Asmik Grigorian will make her Metropolitan Opera role debut as Tatiana in Deborah Warner’s revival of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, with the run opening April 20 for eight performances. (wwnytv.com) The casting and schedule were confirmed in the Met’s recent season notices. (wwnytv.com)
Asmik Grigorian is set to sing Tatiana at the Metropolitan Opera for the first time on April 20, opening an eight-performance run of Tchaikovsky’s *Eugene Onegin*. (metopera.org) The Met lists Grigorian opposite baritone Iurii Samoilov in the title role, with Timur Zangiev conducting Deborah Warner’s staging. The company’s schedule shows performances on April 20, 23, and 28, May 2, 5, 9, 12, and 16. (metopera.org) The May 2 matinee is also the season’s Live in High Definition transmission, sending the performance from the Met stage to cinemas worldwide. Fathom Entertainment lists U.S. movie-theater dates of May 2 and May 6. (metopera.org) (fathomentertainment.com) Tatiana is the central soprano role in Tchaikovsky’s opera, adapted from Alexander Pushkin’s verse novel about a young woman who writes an impulsive letter to Eugene Onegin and meets him again years later under very different circumstances. The Met describes her as the “lovestruck young heroine,” with Onegin recognizing his feelings too late. (metopera.org) For the Met, the casting marks a return engagement for Grigorian after her company debut in Puccini’s *Madama Butterfly* in 2024. The company is billing Tatiana as her first Met appearance in the role. (metopera.org 1) (metopera.org 2) Warner’s production is not new to New York, but this cast is. Met materials identify the staging as Warner’s revival, with designs by Tom Pye, costumes by Chloe Obolensky, lighting by Jean Kalman, video by Finn Ross, and choreography by Kim Brandstrup. (metopera.org) The rest of the principal cast includes Maria Barakova as Olga, Stanislas de Barbeyrac as Lenski, Alexander Tsymbalyuk as Prince Gremin, and Stephanie Blythe as Filippyevna, according to the Met’s event listings and season page. (metopera.org) (bachtrack.com) The opening night on April 20 is also the Met’s gala performance for the production, with the company advertising cocktails, dinner, and intermission dessert around the show. By then, Grigorian will be carrying one of the house’s biggest late-season assignments in a role the Met itself calls one of her signatures. (metopera.org)
