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Houston Grand Opera's Eugene Onegin stars an unlikely hero

By Sydney Boyd, 31 October 2015
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“Belosselskiy's... bass voice gently folds you in a warm embrace”
Reviewed at Wortham Theater Center: Brown Theater, Houston on 30 October 2015
Programme
Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin
Performers
Houston Grand Opera
Michael Hofstetter, Conductor
Robert Carsen, Director
Michael Levine, Set Designer, Costume Designer
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
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra
Paula Suozzi, Revival Director
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Sydney Boyd
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.