Triple threats in cast and chorus, an agile ballet corps and powerful orchestra make a moving experience of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin with WA Opera at His Majesty’s Theatre this week and next. This is the older Tatyana (Lis Hoffmann), Onegin’s victim and nemesis, reflecting on past glories in her care home, with a solitary birthday balloon for comfort. Camera Icon Brigitte Heuser as Madame Larina for WA Opera at The Maj. Credit: West Beach StudioWoodwind fill out their gentle harmonies until a peasant chorus return from the fields in quasi-pagan costume. The brittle figure of the older Tatyana haunts the action as Olga’s fiance, Lensky (tenor Paul O’Neill) arrives, brisk and charming with presence to burn. Eugene Onegin is at His Majesty’s Theatre until August 15.