Ballet

Onegin

Onegin is a ballet choreographed by John Cranko to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, first performed in 1965. Onegin is a ballet created by John Cranko for the Stuttgart Ballet that premiered on 13 April 1965 at Staatstheater…

Onegin
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Choreography
John Cranko
Music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Premiere
1965
First performed at
Staatstheater Stuttgart

About the work

Onegin is a ballet created by John Cranko for the Stuttgart Ballet that premiered on 13 April 1965 at Staatstheater Stuttgart. The ballet was based on Alexander Pushkin's 1825–1832 novel Eugene Onegin, to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and arrangements by Kurt-Heinz Stolze. The ballet has since been in the repertoires of The Australian Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, American Ballet Theatre and The Royal Ballet.

From the Wikipedia article “Onegin (Cranko)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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