Ballet: Onegin - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Ballet: Onegin
Ballet in three acts by John Cranko after Alexander Pushkin
Premiere of the first version on April 13, 1965. Premiere of the second version on October 27, 1967 at the Stuttgart Ballet
Music by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky, arranged and orchestrated by Kurt-Heinz Stolze
Premiere
June 27, 2026
John Cranko's masterpiece after Alexander Pushkin tells the tragic love story between the shy Tatiana and the dandy Onegin.
It is considered the most successful full-length narrative ballet of the second half of the 20th century and the only one that can stand alongside key works of classical ballet such as Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty: John Cranko's Onegin. This ballet, based on Alexander Pushkin's verse novel (1833), premiered at the Stuttgart Ballet in 1965, played a key role in the so-called "Stuttgart Ballet Miracle," and has conquered ballet stages around the world over the past 60 years. Now, Cranko's masterpiece, set to music by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky, is making its first appearance on the Semperoper stage. It centers on two complex main characters: the shy young woman Tatiana, who falls head over heels in love with the arrogant dandy Onegin—who brusquely rejects her love and abruptly shatters her hopes of reciprocation.
It is only years later that Onegin realizes that he has lost the love of his life in Tatiana—but this realization comes too late; Tatiana is no longer within his reach. This Cranko ballet is a congenial companion to arguably the most popular Russian opera, Eugene Onegin (1879) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, with which it shares only the literary source, which itself is considered part of world literature. The compositional source for Onegin was arranged and orchestrated by Cranko's musical director Kurt-Heinz Stolze, who perfectly understood how to musically guide and accompany the drama and emotionality of this deeply moving ballet. Countless dancers have followed in the footsteps of Marcia Haydée and Ray Barra, and now a new generation of dancers in Dresden is waiting to breathe life into these iconic roles and, in turn, tell the poignant love story through the language of dance.
Subject to change.
Premiere of the first version on April 13, 1965. Premiere of the second version on October 27, 1967 at the Stuttgart Ballet
Music by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky, arranged and orchestrated by Kurt-Heinz Stolze
Premiere
June 27, 2026
John Cranko's masterpiece after Alexander Pushkin tells the tragic love story between the shy Tatiana and the dandy Onegin.
It is considered the most successful full-length narrative ballet of the second half of the 20th century and the only one that can stand alongside key works of classical ballet such as Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty: John Cranko's Onegin. This ballet, based on Alexander Pushkin's verse novel (1833), premiered at the Stuttgart Ballet in 1965, played a key role in the so-called "Stuttgart Ballet Miracle," and has conquered ballet stages around the world over the past 60 years. Now, Cranko's masterpiece, set to music by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky, is making its first appearance on the Semperoper stage. It centers on two complex main characters: the shy young woman Tatiana, who falls head over heels in love with the arrogant dandy Onegin—who brusquely rejects her love and abruptly shatters her hopes of reciprocation.
It is only years later that Onegin realizes that he has lost the love of his life in Tatiana—but this realization comes too late; Tatiana is no longer within his reach. This Cranko ballet is a congenial companion to arguably the most popular Russian opera, Eugene Onegin (1879) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, with which it shares only the literary source, which itself is considered part of world literature. The compositional source for Onegin was arranged and orchestrated by Cranko's musical director Kurt-Heinz Stolze, who perfectly understood how to musically guide and accompany the drama and emotionality of this deeply moving ballet. Countless dancers have followed in the footsteps of Marcia Haydée and Ray Barra, and now a new generation of dancers in Dresden is waiting to breathe life into these iconic roles and, in turn, tell the poignant love story through the language of dance.
Subject to change.