Teatro alla Scala production
Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company
Teatro alla Scala Academy Orchestra
Ballet in three acts by |
John Cranko Inspired by Aleksandr Puškin's poem |
Arrangement and orchestration | Kurt-Heinz Stolze |
Conductor | Felix Korobov |
Sets | Pier Luigi Samaritani |
Costumes | Pier Luigi Samaritani e Roberta Guidi di Bagno |
Lights | Steen Bjarke |
Revived by | Agneta Valcu and Victor Valcu |
Choreographic supervision | Reid Anderson |
Copyright property | Dieter Graefe |
Étoile | Roberto Bolle (14, 17, 20, 23 Sept.) |
Guest Artist | Marianela Nuñez (14, 17, 20, 23 Sept.)
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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.
With the support of