Opéra Bastille in Paris is staging "Eugène Onéguine", an opera written by Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovski, that will be performed between May 16 and June 14, 2017.In November 1836, irritated by the French lieutenant Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès' importunate attentions towards his wife, the beautiful Natalia Nicolaïevna Gontcharova, Alexander Pushkin challenged his rival to a duel. Beneath a snow-laden sky o…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 09:38PM on January 24, 2017