For those balletomanes who have found the fare a bit austere and abstract in this fast-concluding San Francisco Ballet season, “Onegin” is back as the final program of the year. Based on Alexander ...
In early August, six of Houston Ballet’s most accomplished dancers – three women and three men, working in pairs -- were thrilled to finally be learning the leading roles of a ballet some of them have ...
Lucky audience to see this stellar pair of dance-actors attempting with all their matchless skills to infuse blood into the pallid veins of what’s largely a delineation of Pushkin's plot, rather than ...
Undaunted by the existence of two famous operatic treatments, John Cranko – then director of Stuttgart Ballet – saw the potential for wordless drama in what was originally a very wordy tale. More ...
The appeal of John Cranko’s Onegin is its leading characters, star parts with stormy emotions for dancers to get their teeth into. It returns to the Royal Ballet with a fascinating mix of established ...
As the curtain fell Friday night at San Francisco Ballet’s premiere of John Cranko’s 1965 evening-long “Onegin,” elegant Vitor Luiz looked spent, and petite Maria Kochetkova gasped for breath as her ...
Woulda coulda shoulda. The low hum of regret runs through Onegin, as a summer idyll turns to sorrow. John Cranko’s 1965 ballet is based on Eugene Onegin. Less spiky than Pushkin’s original poem, less ...
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