Onegin
From: Saturday, 19th January 2013
To: Friday, 8 February 2013
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Synopsis
Inspired by Pushkin's great verse-novel Eugene Onegin about the humiliation and regret of love.
Our Review:
23 January 2013
There’s a moment at the end of Act II of The Royal Ballet’s production of Onegin when the audience witnesses Tatyana's (Alina Cojocaru) metamorphosis from guileless small-town girl to sagacious woman. Lovestruck and out of her depth, Tatyana has just watched the man she loves, Eugene Onegin (Jason Reilly), shoot her sister’s fiancée in cold blood. As Onegin crumbles to the floor, struck by the enormity of his self-righteous actions, Tatyana stands strong and stoic. She appears to grow taller, as if rising from the ashes of her past. Stripped of her innocence and seemingly punished for her idealized view of love, she must now face the cruel realities of life.
Choreographer John Cranko wrote the ballet in 1969 amid protests that the Pushkin verse could not be accurately depicted without spoken words. His emotionally rich narrative and complex characterisation proved the critics wrong but, with any character-driven ballet, Cranko knew ...
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Tchaikovsky (Music)
Royal Ballet (Company)
Kurt-Heinz Stolze (after Tchaikovsky) (Music)
John Cranko (Choreographer)
Reid Anderson (Director)
Jane Bourne (Director)
Steen Bjarke (Lighting)
Jurgen Rose (Design)
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