Actor Ralph Fiennes He will make his debut in the Opera direction in Paris next season with “Eugene Onegin” by Tchaikovsky.
The Paris Opera said Wednesday that production will run from January 26 to February 27 at Palais Garnier and star Boris Pinkhasovich in the main role, Ruzan Manthayan as Tatiana, Bogdan Volkov as Lensky and Susan Graham as Madame Larina.
Fiennes, 62, has been nominated for three academy awards – more recently, This year, for “conclave” – And an Emmy award. The British actor won a Tony award in 1995 for “Hamlet” by Shakespeare. Fiennes starred in the main role of the 1999 “Onegin” film, based on the same novel by Alexander Pushkin as the opera. The film was directed by his sister Martha Fiennes.
SEMYON BYCHKOV will perform most performances. Michael Levine designs the sets and Annemarie Woods the costumes.
The Paris season operates 2025-26 will have new productions of “Aida” by Verdi, “Die Walküre and” Siegfried “by Verdi and” Ercole Amante “by Antonia Bembo.
Revivations include The staging of Claus Guth of “La Bohème” of Puccini, moved to a spacecraft and a planet surface and “Nixon in China” by John Adams with Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson.
