In the organizer's words:

Barrie Kosky stages Tchaikovsky's melancholy drama of the soul about the hopes, longings and failures of four young people who must realize in the end in overwhelming and detailed images of nature: Happiness was within their grasp!

When the poet Lenski visits his fiancée Olga and brings his mysterious friend Yevgeny Onegin with him, Olga's introverted sister Tatyana is completely smitten. But Onegin harshly rejects Tatyana. Years later, he meets her again - now it is she who refuses to listen to his sudden plea for love ...
Yevgeny Onegin was Tchaikovsky's breakthrough as an opera composer and a unique contribution to modern music theater. Barrie Kosky's production features an opulent stage design that transposes the poetry of the characters and their tragedy into the vastness of a natural space. Set to Tchaikovsky's unforgettable music, Yevgeny Onegin presents itself as a "fine-nerved psychogram of young people who are experiencing for the first time what irreversible decisions are." [BR KLASSIK]