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When Pushkin comes to shove: Kasper Holten's Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House

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Reviewed at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 11 February 2013
Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin
The Royal Opera
Robin Ticciati, Conductor
Kasper Holten, Director
Krassimira Stoyanova, Tatyana
Sir Simon Keenlyside, Eugene Onegin
Elena Maximova, Olga
Pavol Breslik, Lensky
Peter Rose, Prince Gremin
Diana Montague, Madame Larina
Kathleen Wilkinson, Filippyevna
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