FULL ONEGIN Movie UK/USA 1999 Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: ONEGIN  
• Composer: Magnus Fiennes  
• Libretto: Peter Ettedgui, Michael Ignatieff  
• Venue & Opera Company: Studio and on location  
• Recorded: 1999
• Type: Movie
• Singers: N/A
• Conductor: Brian Gascoigne, Peter Holman, Jason Osborn  
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director: Martha Fiennes  
• Stage Designer: Jim Clay  
• Costume Designer: John Bright, Chloé Obolensky  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Lions Gate  
• Date Published: 1999  
• Format: DVD
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Onegin is a 1999 British-American romantic drama film based on Alexander Pushkin’s 1833 novel in verse Eugene Onegin. It was co-produced by British and American companies and shot mostly in the United Kingdom. Onegin is Martha Fiennes’ directorial debut and stars her brother Ralph Fiennes in the role of Yevgeny (Eugene) Onegin, Liv Tyler as Tatiana and Toby Stephens as Lensky. Two other Fiennes siblings were involved in the project: Magnus Fiennes wrote the music and Sophie Fiennes appeared in a minor role.

  Plot
  In early 19th century Russia, a bored St. Petersburg socialite named Onegin inherits his uncle’s estate in the country. There, he meets a neighbouring landowner and aspiring poet, Lensky, and a widowed mother and her two daughters. The poet is engaged to the elder daughter Olga. Her sister, Tatiana (Tanya), writes Onegin a passionate love letter but he turns her down because of her youth and inexperience. He instead dances with her sister, which the jealous Lensky interprets as flirtation, and challenges his friend to a duel. The duel is arranged to take place in a secluded place by a local lake, and unknown to the participants, Tatiana secretly witnesses the duel from a safe distance. She observes Lensky taking the first shot and missing, followed by Onegin taking careful aim and disposing of Lensky with a shot to his opponent’s head.

  Onegin departs from his country estate. Six years later, he returns to St. Petersburg, and encounters Tanya, the woman he spurned, who is now a woman of refinement and married to his cousin Prince Nikitin. Onegin immediately sees Tanya as desirable, and falls in love with her. He begs her forgiveness for his past behaviour. Tanya refuses Onegin, explaining to him that he has missed his chance with her; she will be faithful to her husband. He receives her rejection with despair.

  Cast
  Ralph Fiennes as Yevgeny Onegin
  Liv Tyler as Tatyana Larina
  Toby Stephens as Vladimir Lensky
  Lena Headey as Olga Larina
  Martin Donovan as Prince Nikitin
  Alun Armstrong as Zaretsky
  Harriet Walter as Madame Larina
  Irene Worth as Princess Alina
  Jason Watkins as Guillot
  Simon McBurney as Triquet
  Gwenllian Davies as Anisia
  Margery Withers as Nanya
  Geoff McGivern as Andrey Petrovitch

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