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

“There is much sympathetic conducting from Yankovskaya: the Russian-American conductor sets a gently reflective pace at first; when she turns the screw, the drama ignites.”
–The Times

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

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

”Yankovskaya sweeps the score along, with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra on top form with the brooding emotion in Tchaikovsky's score.”
–Broadway World

“Yankovskaya directed the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra to great effect.”
–London Unattached

“Yankovskaya makes an impressive house debut, drawing sweeping passion and dramatic intensity from the score. She leads the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra with assurance and flair, while the chorus, so central to Russian opera, sings magnificently throughout.”
–Plays to See

“The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra play magnificently under the baton of Yankovskaya who delivers every nuance and soaring moment of Tchaikovsky’s wonderful music.”
–The Arbuturian

“Below stage there is some wonderfully authoritative musical direction from Yankovskaya who draws terrific playing from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, her traversal both passionate and sensitive, yet invigorating the score and bringing out all its myriad felicities and romance.”
–Opera Today

“Yankovskaya directs the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra with plenty of pace and drive.”
–Opera Now

"With Yankovskaya and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra delineating both Tchaikovsky’s foreboding and emotional fulfilment, the production illuminates Pushkin’s ideas of class and despair, while delivering passion with satisfying vigour and impressive subtlety.”
–The Stage