Onegin

Over several nights at Budapest’s State Opera House, including March 3-4, John Cranko’s three-act, six-scene ballet presents his interpretation of Pushkin’s famed literary creation Eugene Onegin. Tchaikovsky’s original score is further reinvented by Kurt-Heinz Stolze. Both choreographer and composer died half a century, having worked on other celebrated pieces by Tchaikovsky together.

This production was first staged in Stuttgart in 1965, and has since been performed in Paris, New York and by the Royal Ballet, where the South African Cranko was a young choreographer after the war. Onegin runs over two hours and 30 minutes, with two intervals.