British actor Ralph Fiennes to direct his first opera

Ralph Fiennes will make his opera directing debut

Actor Ralph Fiennes will make his opera directing debut in Paris next season with Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.”

British actor Ralph Fiennes to direct his first opera

Having lit up screens in the Oscar-nominated papal drama Conclave, British actor Ralph Fiennes is set to make his debut as an opera director in France, the Paris National Opera announced Wednesday.The 62-year-old, who has directed several films including a 2018 biopic about the dance legend Rudolf Nureyev, is set to stage Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Eugene...

The actor will stage "Eugène Oneguine", a character whom he himself incarnated in cinema in 1999.

A small surprise announced by Alexandre Neef, the director general of the Paris Opera: the actor Ralph Fiennes, star of the multi-award-winning film Conclave, will direct Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky.

Paris, France.- The British actor Ralph Fiennes will stage an opera during the next season of the National Opera of Paris (OnP), also marked by a work sung in Sanskrit. The two scenes of the OnP, the Palace Garnier and the Opera Bastille, will have to undergo successive closures due to renovation works already scheduled, explained in a press conference this Wednesday the director general of the agency, Alexandre Neef. In the case of the Palace G…

Ralph Fiennes to make opera directing debut in Paris - Jersey Evening Post

Actor Ralph Fiennes will make his opera directing debut in Paris next season with Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. The Paris Opera said the production will run from January 26 to February 27 at the Palais Garnier and will star Boris Pinkhasovich in the title role, Ruzan Mantashyan as Tatiana, Bogdan Volkov as Lensky and Susan Graham as Madame Larina. Fiennes, 62, has been nominated for three Academy Awards – most recently this year for Conclave – an…