Katie Van Kooten excels as heart of 'Eugene Onegin'
For its first staging of "Eugene Onegin" since 2002, Houston Grand Opera has turned to director Robert Carsen's production introduced at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1997 - and it proves a sound choice. With Paula Suozzi's deft restaging and Michael Levine's spare "white box" production design, the production proves effective and evocative - maybe more so than one might have anticipated from a simple description…