The Show Pushkin's classic love story becomes a sumptuous ballet with John Cranko's choreography set to Tchaikovsky's soaring music.
A TALE OF REGRETWhen the bookish Tatiana meets Eugene Onegin, she is immediately besotted.
Enigmatic and refined, he seems like a hero from one of her novels.
Onegin rejects her, seeing only a naive country girl.
Will a meeting at a ball many years later offer another chance at love?Background 60 years after its creation, Onegin's exploration of unrequited affection, impulsive choices and bitter regret still breaks hearts today.
First opera, then ballet John Cranko became acquainted with Alexander Pushkin's verse-novel Eugene Onegin when he choreographed the dances for Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's opera of the same name in 1952.
He created his own distinctive version of Pushkin's work in 1965 for the Stuttgart Ballet.
Onegin displays all of Cranko's genius as a narrative choreographer, featuring finely drawn characters who are transformed by the conflicts they face.
A wide-ranging role Onegin and Tatiana's relationship is depicted through intense duets, such as the letter-writing scene, when the youthful Tatiana dances a dream pas de deux with her longed-for lover.
The role of Tatiana offers a ballerina many challenges - the development of a bookish country girl into a sophisticated woman at the pinnacle of St Petersburg society requires dramatic sensibility and technical finesse.
Cranko's choreography incorporates an eclectic range of dance forms, including folk, modern, ballroom and acrobatic.
An unexpected Tchaikovsky ballet? While Tchaikovsky is most famous for his music in Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, his lesser-known works for piano form the basis of Kurt-Heinz Stolze's soaring arrangements for Onegin.
This includes selections from The Seasons, his opera Cherevichki and the symphonic fantasy Francesca da Rimini.
30pm Audio-described with pre-performance touch tour - Saturday 15 February, 7pm
Theatre details
Royal Opera House
Royal Opera House Bow Street London WC2E 9DD
Directions: ( 7 minutes from Leicester square Tube Station) Head east on Cranbourn Street and continue for 390 feet ( towards Charing Cross Road). Cranbourn Street turns slightly right and becomes Garrick Street continue along this road for 207 feet. Turn left onto Floral Street and continue for 0.2 miles. Turn right onto Bow Street and continue for 171 feet, the theatre will be on your right hand side.
Tube: Covent Garden station is 1 minute walk (135 metres)
Covent Garden station is 1 minute walk (135 metres)
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