Yevgeny Onegin, by Tchaikovsky, joins the video library of the Palau de les Arts

Valencia. Yevgeni Onegin , by Tchaikovsky, has joined this week the video library of opera productions recorded at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía that are sold on the market.

The Unitel technical team, responsible for the multi-award-winning recording of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle with Zubin Mehta and La Fura dels Baus, recorded the final two performances of this work at the Valencian arts center in 2011, with musical direction by Omer Meir Wellber. This is the first DVD and Blu-ray recording in the Israeli maestro's career.

This production by Yevgeny Onegin at the Teatr Wielki has stage direction by filmmaker Mariusz Treli?ski. Baritone Artur Ruci?ski (Yevgeny Onegin) and soprano Krist?ne Opolais (Tatiana) take on the leading roles. Dmitri Korchak (Lenski), Lena Belkina (Olga), Günther Groissböck (Prince Gremin), Lena Belkina (Olga), Helene Schneiderman (Lárina), Margarita Nekrasova (Filíppievna), Simon Lim (Zaretski) and Emilio Sánchez (Triquet) complete the cast.

Omer Meir Wellber's debut performance at the Palau de les Arts garnered significant attention from the European press. Die Welt hailed Wellber's conducting of the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana as "exemplary," highlighting the "delicacy" with which he brought out all the nuances of the score, "despite it being his first time performing the work." Meanwhile, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praised the maestro's interpretation of Beesheva as a "miracle of poetry."

Omer Meir Wellber joins Yevgeni Oneguin , by Tchaikovsky, to the list of great batonists and lyrical figures that appear in the video library of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía: Patrick Fournillier ( Cyrano de Bergerac , with Plácido Domingo), Valeri Guérguiev ( Les Troyens ) , Lorin Maazel ( La vida Breve ) and Zubin Mehta ( Fidelio , Turandot , Das Rheingold , Die Walküre , Siegfried , Götterdämmerung ). The production of Puccini's La Bohème , directed by Riccardo Chailly in his operatic debut in Spain, will also soon be released in High Definition.