Eugene Onegin; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Janine Jansen/Vänskä – review

Coliseum; Royal Festival Hall, LondonIn Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin each act ends in catastrophe. First the young heroine, Tatyana, spurned in love, bids farewell to innocence. Then Lensky, the ardent poet, dies meaninglessly in a duel. At last, in perfect symmetry, the man who cast Tatyana aside – Onegin himself – finds his belated love for her rejected, thus making an opera with three endings, each more anguished than the last.Of the many strengths in English National Opera's lavish new st...

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