Onegin   ph Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (1)

ONEGIN

Onegin

Ballet

Onegin

John Cranko
From 5 to 25 November 2023
2 hours 25 minutes ca. intermission included

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Arrangement and orchestration di Kurt-Heinz Stolze

Teatro alla Scala production

Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company

Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

Cast

Ballet in three acts inspired by Aleksandr Puškin's poemJOHN CRANKO
ConductorSIMON HEWETT
SetsPIER LUIGI SAMARITANI
CostumesPIER LUIGI SAMARITANI
CostumesROBERTA GUIDI DI BAGNO
LightsSTEEN BJARKE
Choreographic SupervisionREID ANDERSON
CopyrightsDIETER GRAEFE
Étoile (5, 8, 15, 17 Nov.)ROBERTO BOLLE

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.