Onegin
Ph. Marco Brescia & Rudy Amisano
From 5 to 25 November 2023
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Running time: 2 hours 25 minutes ca. intermission included
Teatro alla Scala production
Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company
Teatro alla Scala Orchestra
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Ballet in three acts by |
John Cranko Inspired by Aleksandr Puškin's poem |
| Arrangement and orchestration | Kurt-Heinz Stolze |
| Conductor | Simon Hewett |
| Sets | Pier Luigi Samaritani |
| Costumes | Pier Luigi Samaritani and Roberta Guidi di Bagno |
| Lights | Steen Bjarke |
| Choreographic supervision | Reid Anderson |
| Copyright property | Dieter Graefe |
| Étoile | Roberto Bolle (5, 8, 15, 17 Nov.) |
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.
