HGO's Onegin stars an unlikely hero

Por Sydney Boyd, 31 octubre 2015

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“Belosselskiy's... bass voice gently folds you in a warm embrace”

Crítica hecha desde Wortham Theater Center: Brown Theater, Houston el 30 octubre 2015

Chaikovskiï, Eugene Onegin

Houston Grand Opera

Michael Hofstetter, Dirección

Robert Carsen, Dirección de escena

Michael Levine, Diseño de escena, Diseño de vestuario

Scott Hendricks, Eugene Onegin

Katie van Kooten, Tatyana

Norman Reinhardt, Lensky

Megan Mikailovna Samarin, Olga

Larissa Diadkova, Filippyevna

Dmitry Belosselskiy, Prince Gremin

Cynthia Clayton, Madame Larina

David Cangelosi, Monsieur Triquet

Federico De Michelis, Zaretsky

Ben Edquist, Captain

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Paula Suozzi, Director de reposición

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Sydney Boyd

Sydney Boyd is an arts writer, scholar, and violinist. She has been a music critic in Houston since 2012 and is the blog author of Girl at the Opera. She has a Ph.D. in English literature from Rice University, where she currently holds a post-doctoral Spatial Studies fellowship in the Humanities Research Center.

Houston Grand Opera's Eugene Onegin stars an unlikely hero