Ballet: Onegin - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Ballet: Onegin
Musical direction
Robert Reimer
Composer
Piotr I. Tschaikowski in an arrangement by Kurt-Heinz Stolze
Choreography and staging
John Cranko
Stage and costumes
Elisabeth Dalton
Light
Steen Bjarke
Rehearsal
Reid Anderson
Luke Gaudernak
Jean Christophe Lesage
Contents
»Heaven wills it: I am yours;
Winning you was my life
A single pledge only, on and on:
God himself gave you to me
You are my treasure to the grave..."
Excerpt from Tatjana's letter from Alexander Pushkin's »Onegin«, Third Chapter, XXXI
“What appealed to me most about ›Onegin‹ was that the story is both a myth and an emotionally comprehensible situation.« John Cranko’s ballet »Onegin« is undisputedly one of the South African choreographer’s masterpieces and, at the same time, one of the most famous and successful narrative ballets of the 20th century . Cranko tells the unhappy love story of the young woman Tatjana and the anti-hero Onegin, based on various works by the composer Piotr I. Tchaikovsky, but not on his opera »Eugene Onegin«. The choreographer manages to skillfully switch between large ensemble scenes and intimate moments of the four main characters, as well as to convey the action through movement in such a way that neither previous reading of Alexander Pushkin's verse novel nor specific knowledge of the vocabulary of classical ballet from needs are. Always looking at the characters as if through a magnifying glass, he turns their emotions and passions into the engine of his dramaturgy, which has been moving and inspiring audiences worldwide for more than 50 years. After the ballet premiered with the Stuttgart Ballet in 1965, it has been an integral part of the repertoire of the Vienna State Ballet since 2006 and will be resumed in the 2021/22 season.
Subject to change.
Robert Reimer
Composer
Piotr I. Tschaikowski in an arrangement by Kurt-Heinz Stolze
Choreography and staging
John Cranko
Stage and costumes
Elisabeth Dalton
Light
Steen Bjarke
Rehearsal
Reid Anderson
Luke Gaudernak
Jean Christophe Lesage
Contents
»Heaven wills it: I am yours;
Winning you was my life
A single pledge only, on and on:
God himself gave you to me
You are my treasure to the grave..."
Excerpt from Tatjana's letter from Alexander Pushkin's »Onegin«, Third Chapter, XXXI
“What appealed to me most about ›Onegin‹ was that the story is both a myth and an emotionally comprehensible situation.« John Cranko’s ballet »Onegin« is undisputedly one of the South African choreographer’s masterpieces and, at the same time, one of the most famous and successful narrative ballets of the 20th century . Cranko tells the unhappy love story of the young woman Tatjana and the anti-hero Onegin, based on various works by the composer Piotr I. Tchaikovsky, but not on his opera »Eugene Onegin«. The choreographer manages to skillfully switch between large ensemble scenes and intimate moments of the four main characters, as well as to convey the action through movement in such a way that neither previous reading of Alexander Pushkin's verse novel nor specific knowledge of the vocabulary of classical ballet from needs are. Always looking at the characters as if through a magnifying glass, he turns their emotions and passions into the engine of his dramaturgy, which has been moving and inspiring audiences worldwide for more than 50 years. After the ballet premiered with the Stuttgart Ballet in 1965, it has been an integral part of the repertoire of the Vienna State Ballet since 2006 and will be resumed in the 2021/22 season.
Subject to change.
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