This spectacular opera film was taped in 1967 and is based on the 1966 Salzburg Festival production directed by Herbert von Karajan himself, who also conducts the fabulous Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The production features the three greatest exponents of their respective roles at the time:...
A filmed version of Tchaikovsky's opera. Onegin visits a friend, his fiancee and her sister Tatiana, who believes Onegin is her fated love. She writes a note telling him so, but he rejects her. Years later he returns, finding her married, but now he's smitten with her.
Karl Richter conducts Peter Schreier, Ernst Gerold Schramm, Siegmund Nimsgern, Helen Donath, Julia Hamari, Horst R. Laubenthal, Walter Berry, and Muenchner Bach Chor & Orchestra in 1971.
