Eugene Onegin, Glyndebourne, Lewes
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Graham Vick's 1994 production for Glyndebourne, now receiving its third festival revival, takes an objective view of this bald plot of love and rejection. At Larin's country estate, a painterly sky is the backdrop to a bed of tall, orderly reeds - the first of several distancing but beautiful abstractions. The neat, two-dimensional view of Tatyana's bedroom has a cooling effect on …