BY KAREN BOSSICK

Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” will be screened Saturday as the next to the last Metropolitan Opera live simulcast MetHD of the season.

The operatic adaptation of Pushkin’s iconic verse novel will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to Merlin’s Magic Lantern in Ketchum beginning at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, May 2.

It runs 4 hours and 5 minutes with two intermissions.

The performance features soprano Asmik Grigorian as the lovestruck young heroine Tatiana. She made her acclaimed company debut in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” in 2024.

Baritone Lurii Samoilov will play Onegin, who realizes his affection for her too late.

The production will be directed by Tony Award-winner Deborah Warner.

The opera reimagines the Byronic romantic anti-hero as the definitive bored Russian aristocrat caught between convention and ennui. Tchaikovsky took Western European operatic forms and transformed them into an authentic, undeniably Russian work as he created the music for a young girl who grows from a sentimental adolescent into a complete woman in one of the operatic stage’s most convincing character developments.

Tickets for the Ketchum production, produced in partnership between Sun Valley Opera and Broadway and Merlin’s Magic Lantern, are $22 for the general public and $20 for seniors.