Evgenii Onegin is best known in the West through Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin. But the original narrative poem is one of the landmarks of Russian literature. In the poem, the eponymous hero repudiates love, only to later experience the pain of rejection himself. Alexander Pushkin's unique style proves timeless in its exploration of love, life, passion, jealousy and the consequences of social convention.

Tatiana falls in love with Onegin who urges her to forget him. Onegin kills a man in a duel and travels abroad. Six years later he meets Tatiana again, but she is married.

In his first year as Musical Director of Valencia's Palau de les Arts exciting, fast-rising young conductor Omer Meir Wellber scores a triumph with Tchaikovsky's most beloved opera Eugene Onegin. In Trelinski's timeless production he leads a superb, first-class young cast headed by Artur Ruzinski as Onegin and Kristine Opolais as Tatyana.