For its first staging of "Eugene Onegin" since 2002, Houston Grand Opera has turned to director Robert Carsen's production introduced at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1997 - and it proves a sound choice. With Paula Suozzi's deft restaging and Michael Levine's spare "white box" production design, the production proves effective and evocative - maybe more so than one might have anticipated from a simple description…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle at 04:32PM on October 31, 2015