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Onegin

Brown Theatre, Houston, USA
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Important Info
Type: Ballet
City: Houston, USA
Starts at: 19:30
Acts: 3

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Cast
Performers
Ballet company: Houston Ballet
Orchestra: Houston Ballet Orchestra
Creators
Composer: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreographer: John Cranko
Poet: Alexander Pushkin
Overview

Cranko’s Onegin is one of the defining ballets of this rich artistic legacy, and it continues to resonate in the dance world today. Its profound emotional depth and groundbreaking choreography have made it a cornerstone of the classical ballet repertoire.

When Tatiana, a young country girl, is introduced to Onegin, a worldly aristocrat bored with the city, he becomes the object of her innocent and unyielding affection. Yet, in his eyes, he sees only a coltish girl who reads too many romance novels. When fate brings them back together years later, Onegin finds himself yearning for the love he once dismissed—only to face the devastating consequences of his past actions.

Based on Alexander Pushkin's novel Eugene Onegin, John Cranko’s Onegin is a timeless tale of love, rejection, and regret. Using Tchaikovsky’s music from the opera, the ballet features well-developed characters with rich psychological depth, who evolve through compelling character arcs as the story unfolds across its three acts.

Premiering in 1965, Cranko created Onegin for Stuttgart Ballet, where he served as artistic director. Under his leadership, the company became an artistic Eden, cultivating a thriving environment that influenced the dance world for years to come. Cranko encouraged his dancers to be artists, technicians, and choreographers, and Stuttgart Ballet became a fertile ground for future choreographic talent, producing legendary choreographers like Jirí Kylián, John Neumeier, and William Forsythe.

History
Premiere of this production: 13 April 1965, Staatstheater Stuttgart

Onegin is a ballet created by John Cranko for the Stuttgart Ballet in 1965. It was restaged for the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House in 2001 and remains in that company's repertoire as of 2015. The ballet is being revived in January 2020.

Synopsis

Act 1

Madame Larina's garden

In the garden, Madame Larina, her daughters Olga and Tatiana, and the nurse are finishing party dresses and discussing Tatiana's upcoming birthday celebrations. They think about the future, and the local girls play an old folk game: whoever looks into the mirror will see her beloved. Lensky, a young poet engaged to Olga, arrives with a friend from Saint Petersburg. He introduces Eugene Onegin, who has come to the country to see if it can offer him any distraction from city life. Tatiana falls in love with the handsome stranger, who seems so different from the country people she knows, while Onegin only sees a naive, romantic girl.

Tatiana's bedroom

That night, Tatiana dreams of Onegin, her first love. She writes him a passionate love letter, which she asks her nurse to deliver.

Act 2

Tatiana's birthday

The local gentry have all arrived to celebrate Tatiana's birthday. Onegin finds the company boring and is struggling to be polite. He is also annoyed by Tatiana's letter, which he thinks is just an outburst of adolescent love. He seeks Tatiana out and tears up her letter, telling her that he cannot love her. Prince Gremin, a distant relative of Tatiana who is in love with her, appears. Madame Larina hopes they will make a good match, but Tatiana hardly notices him as she is so distressed. Onegin decides to provoke Lensky by flirting with Olga, hoping it will relieve his boredom. Olga joins in with the joke, but Lensky takes it seriously and challenges Onegin to a duel.

The duel

Tatiana and Olga try to reason with Lensky but he insists the duel must go ahead. Onegin kills his friend.

Act 3

St Petersburg

Years later, Onegin returns to St. Petersburg after travelling the world. He goes to a ball at the palace of Prince Gremin. Onegin is surprised when he recognises the beautiful Princess Tatiana as the country girl he once turned away. He realises how much he lost through his previous actions.

Tatiana's boudoir

Onegin writes to Tatiana and reveals his love. He asks to see her but she does not wish to see him. She pleads with her husband not to leave her alone that evening. Onegin comes and declares his love for her. Tatiana feels Onegin's change of heart has come too late. And even if she still loves him she has now a new life with Prince Gremin and also after having killed Lensky she would never want Onegin again. She tears up his letter and orders him to leave her forever.

Venue Info

Brown Theatre - Houston
Location   501 Texas Ave, Houston, TX 77002

The Brown Theatre is one of the two theatres located in the Wortham Theater Center in downtown Houston, TX.

The Brown Theatre is one of the two theatres located in the Wortham Theater Center in downtown Houston, TX. It is a 2,405-seat venue that hosts primarily opera and large ballet productions by two resident companies: the Houston Ballet and the Houston Grand Opera. The Center opened in 1987 and features a glass entry archway and Helen Hayes Chandelier. It is known for its unique acoustical features called “frying pan pods” which enable music to flow through the pods into sections of the opera hall that wouldn’t be considered good listening areas under other circumstances. Despite its size, no seat is more than 138 feet from the stage.

Important Info
Type: Ballet
City: Houston, USA
Starts at: 19:30
Acts: 3
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