It would be hard to find an antihero more anti than Eugene Onegin. The protagonist of Alexander Pushkin’s long verse novel of 1833 is a wrecker of lives. Charismatically handsome yet arrogant, cynical ...
“Iolanta” shared its premiere, in December of 1892, with a ballet you may have heard of, “The Nutcracker.” Of Tchaikovsky’s music, that score’s only competitor as a hatcher of earworms is “The 1812 ...
Scottish Opera’s annual tour of small theatres and community centres with four singers and a piano is one of the company’s defining missions.
The Royal Opera House returns to John Cranko’s romantic tragedy Onegin for the ballet’s 60th anniversary, posing one question: can unrequited love turn into a mutual feeling? The audience is ...
The Springfield Symphony Orchestra is stretching into multiple genres and allowing budding musicians a chance to work with ...
Reece Clarke, the principal dancer at the Royal Ballet and Opera, played the role of the devilishly handsome Onegin on ...
Cranko set his ballet to a patchwork of bittersweet Tchaikovsky – even the merriest melodies have a backnote of sorrow. His choreography is striking and elegant, but not deep – it depends on the ...
The Royal Ballet’s take on Pushkin’s verse-novel is an engrossing dive into dark passions ...
Alexander Pushkin’s 19th-century verse novel Eugene Onegin is a tale of male desire, jealousy and violence. It inspired the eponymous Tchaikovsky opera, the 1999 film Onegin starring Ralph ...