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Eugène Onéguine is a masterpiece with an extreme sensibility. It’s not an opera like the others. While his contemporaries compose still more and more heroic, epic and grandiloquent operas, Tchaïkovski adapts in music a Pouchkine’s intimate novel, a marvel of fineness, of love and hate, of happiness and despair. The composer’s music is here at its paroxysm: some references to Russian traditions, a bewitching waltz, an intense duel, but also an intimate atmosphere where music and text fuse. It’s love at first sight for Tatiana when she meets Eugène, but he challenges to a duel her friend Lenski and then has to leave. When he comes back, he falls in love with Tatiana but it’s too late… Jean-Yves Ruf, used to marathon stories since he worked on Shakespeare’s greatest texts, comes back with this opera to his first loves as a musician. When he was a teenager, he had learned to play oboe, horn and flute at the conservatory. This tragic story of young people bewitched by life is directed by Pascal Verrot (manager of the well-known Picardie orchestra) and told by Russian speaker singers as young as their roles! The main role is held by Andun Iversen, revelation of the Oslo-Queen Sonia Contest. This opera is a vibrant tribute to Tchaïkovski and Pouchkine who tremendously transmitted us the feelings of love.