The title says it. It was my fifth live Onegin. Washington (2), Kiev (1), Covent Garden (1). It was a smart and forceful production, the best of them. Musical intensity and singing of the first order.
The theatrical values were self evident throughout, the unity of place is strongly drawn in every scene with sparse and very smart settings.
Camera work, close cropping and editing made for compelling cinema. It became an exponent of a new "genre". Everyone in the cast was exceptional.