Eugene Onegin

Staatsoper Hamburg

Hamburg, Germany

“The Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra played fabulously under the direction of Lidiya Yankovskaya, again and again intensively measuring the emotional world of this opera. The final applause for this musical moment of glory in the Hamburg State Opera was long-lasting and cheering and included everyone involved.”
–Klassik begistert

“What was special about this performance was Lidyia Yankovskaya, a young American conductor with Russian roots. For her, the Eugene Onegin series of performances also means her debut in Germany and Europe. The Philharmonic State Orchestra had a very good evening under her direction. It performed with remarkable intensity and precision, blossoming in the dramatic moments and in the outbursts during interpersonal confrontations as in the last scene. But Lidyia Yankovskaya was also able to elicit a certain sentimentality from the orchestra, and here in particular from the strings, with delicate lyrics, voluptuous enamel and restrained sensual passages, but without this appearing artificial. She was also an attentive companion to the excellent soloists.”
–IOCO (German) 

“The young Russian conductor, Lidiya Yankoskaya, who had studied in the USA, carefully traced the wonderfully subtle melancholy of the piece together with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, awakened the elegiac melody arcs, these memory motifs that gradually settled in the ear and gave an intensive experience.”
–Oper Aktuell