Ailyn Pérez triumphs as Tatyana in Met Opera's Onegin revival

Ailyn Pérez (Tatyana)

Ailyn Pérez (Tatyana) and Igor Golovatenko (Onegin)

Ailyn Pérez (Tatyana), Ain Anger (Gremin) and Igor Golovatenko)

Piotr Beczała (Lensky)

By David Wolfson, 26 March 2022

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“every time Pérez sang we heard a character with a fully musically realized inner life”

Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 25 March 2022

Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin

Metropolitan Opera

James Gaffigan, Conductor

Deborah Warner, Director

Tom Pye, Set Designer

Chloe Obolensky, Costume Designer

Jean Kalman, Lighting Designer

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

The Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Ian Galloway, Video

Finn Ross, Video

Paula Williams, Revival Director

Igor Golovatenko, Eugene Onegin

Ailyn Pérez, Tatyana

Varduhi Abrahamyan, Olga

Piotr Beczała, Lensky

Ain Anger, Prince Gremin

Larissa Diadkova, Filippyevna

Tony Stevenson, Monsieur Triquet

Richard Bernstein, Zaretsky

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David Wolfson

David Wolfson holds a PhD in composition from Rutgers University, and has taught at Rutgers University, Montclair State University and Hunter College. He is enjoying an eclectic career, having composed opera, musical theatre, touring children’s musicals, and incidental music for plays; choral music, band music, orchestral music, chamber music, art songs, and music for solo piano; comedy songs, cabaret songs and one memorable score for an amusement park big-headed-costumed-character show. You can find more information here.

Ailyn Pérez triumphs as Tatyana in Met Opera's Eugene Onegin revival