Released:
1999-04-15

Overview:
Elijah Moshinsky’s atmospheric production, designed by Mark Thompson, sets the stage for this gripping performance of Tchaikovsky’s passionate setting of Pushkin’s classic novel. Valery Gergiev’s idiomatic and authoritative conducting inspires a superb cast, headed by Plácido Domingo (Ghermann), breathtaking in his portrayal of a man unraveling toward suicide. Galina Gorchakova is Lisa, the woman he loves and destroys, Dmitri Hvorostovsky lends a superb voice and regal bearing to Prince Yeletsky; and Elisabeth Söderström is hair-raising as the old Countess. Olga Borodina is Paulina and Nikolai Putilin is Count Tomsky.

Director:
Elijah Moshinsky

Runtime:
2h 51min

Genre:
Music, Drama, Fantasy

• Cast:
• 
  Galina Gorchakova
  as
  Lisa
• 
  Dmitri Hvorostovsky
  as
  Prince Yeletsky
• 
  Plácido Domingo
  as
  Gherman
• 
  Elisabeth Söderström
  as
  Countess
• 
  Nikolai Putilin
  as
  Count Tomsky