Eugene Onegin: The Classic Motion Picture With The Bolshoi Opera

Twenty words minimum review length ??? Twenty times my attention span!Review in just ONE WORD: EXCELLENT.It was a perfect preview for a live performance and remains a powerful,definite keeper. The LA Opera production was great in its own way, thisMovie production expands the Stage very nicely. It all was exactly whatI desired.

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This is one of the few opera DVDs which I am eager to watch again. Filmed in the Russian countryside and St. Petersburg the staging and acting make this gorgeous production mesmerizing and emotionally affecting. The attractive actors look and act their parts and lip-synch convincingly. Every one of the singers is superb and the Bolshoi company has this music in their blood.The downside is that this film has considerable cuts - all of them internal (cuts within scenes or arias). It's not disastrous and I guess it's better to want more than wishing the singers would just get on with it and stop dawdling (Fleming/Horovsky and Chilcott/Hampson). The sound is not modern state-of-the-art, but my ears adjusted quickly to the good quality 50's production. The color changes slightly from time to time and there are a few extremely small hiccups during the transitions from one roll of film to the next. For me, however, these flaws don't affect my enjoyment of this excellent film one bit.So, 5 stars for the singing, acting, sets and staging and 3 stars for the (re)production values for an average of 4 stars. Wish Amazon would provide for rating those two different values separately.Highly recommended - plus it costs about half that of the opera house productions.

I strongly recommend this film for any opera lover. The singing is first-rate and the acting is completely believable. The cuts necessary to make this a less than 3 hour film, are done really tastefully and without damage to the story. Highly recommended.

This is a beautiful Russian opera shot on location in St. Petersburg and I believe the Hermitage. The actors are all gorgeous and the lip syncing with professonal opera singers is effective. However, it is marred with poor cinematography, poor editing and poor sound track.

Although this opera plays like a movie all of the opera excitement is still present. The movie is lipsynced where they have different actors and different voices for each actors but this doesn't really pose a problem and the piece moves well. The music is beautiful along with the russian landscapes and ballroom scenes. Much better than the opera we just saw which had just a couch and two chairs for one act. This was a really enjoyable opera to watch so I suggest you just sit back with a bag of popcorn and enjoy the movie.

This is one of my favourite operas, and while the cast maybe isn’t perfect to my tastes, they’ve done a fantastic job. The movie is bright and impressive in its setting, and I’ve watched it 7 times. My one critique (and the meaning for the 4 stars, not 5,) is that the English subtitling is not entirely accurate or consistant, but enough to give you a sense of plot. However, the music alone is enjoyable, even if you don’t speak Russian.

Fantastic production- world class vocals, superb acting, perfect harmony of music and poetry of the two geniuses - Tchaikovsky and Pushkin.

This Soviet style of presentation is interesting. The filming is beautiful but I didn't expect the singing to be dubbed. It is a little jarring since I would prefer to hear the singing than to see the visuals.