Onegin
Performances
Ballet
Onegin
John Cranko
From 5 to 25 November 2023
2 hours 25 minutes ca. intermission included | |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Teatro alla Scala production Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company Teatro alla Scala Orchestra |
Cast
Ballet in three acts inspired by Aleksandr Puškin's poem | JOHN CRANKO |
Arrangement and orchestration | KURT-HEINZ STOLZE |
Conductor | SIMON HEWETT |
Sets | PIER LUIGI SAMARITANI |
Costumes | PIER LUIGI SAMARITANI |
Costumes | ROBERTA GUIDI DI BAGNO |
Lights | STEEN BJARKE |
Choreographic Supervision | REID ANDERSON |
Copyrights | DIETER GRAEFE |
Étoile | Roberto Bolle (5, 8, 15, 17 Nov.) |
In brief
A young aristocrat, bored with life, lets his one true, great love slip through his fingers, thinking it a game, only realizing his error later. Onegin, perfect example of a modern dance drama, is inspired by Pushkin’s novel in verse, which John Cranko rewrote with masterful sensitivity: a story of unhappy love, with pas-dedeux of extraordinary expressivity, characters sculpted with precision, and splendid company dances to music by Tchaikovsky, without a single note from the opera of the same name.