Eugene Onegin

The Grange Festival

Hampshire, UK

“What really makes this radical view of Tchaikovsky’s opera cohere is Lidiya Yankovskaya’s passionately committed conducting: she sweeps the drama along with an idiomatic flow that draws excellent playing from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – the solo wind and mellow solo horn evoking a world of romantic possibilities that were never to be. An outstanding evening from a fine team, reinventing a great opera.
–The Telegraph

“Yankovskaya conducted a taut, excitable account of Tchaikovsky’s miraculous score. Woodwinds and brass made quite the impact in a muscly Polonaise.”
–Opera Magazine

“Lidiya Yankovskaya's conducting of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra was both effective and affecting…”
–musicOMH