Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is the opera everyone loves. The American director Ted Huffman has heralded his new production ...

The imperious Onegin rejects naive Tatianas proposal of love and also incites a duel with his best friend turned rival Lenski Piotr Beczala This sets the scene for a dramatic story of love loyalty ...

For a tale of heartbreaking regret for a missed opportunity, Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, as set to music by Tchaikovsky, would ...

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“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 ...

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 ...

The audience is transported to 1820s imperial Russia – the setting of Alexander Pushkin’s acclaimed novel in verse Eugene Onegin, on which the ballet is based – through the opulent, naturalistic set ...

until a real-life Mr Rochester stalks into her quiet country life in the imposing shape of Reece Clarke’s leather-coated Eugene Onegin. Nuñez practically levitates as she is drawn to him in ...

The Royal Ballet will present Onegin, a heart-wrenching adaptation of Alexander Pushkin’s bittersweet verse-novel of Eugene Onegin ... Stolze drawn from Tchaikovsky’s works for ...