Product details - Pushkinands classic love story becomes a sumptuous ballet with john crankoands choreography set to tchaikovskyands soaring music'. '.strtoupper('a') tale of regret when the bookish tatiana meets eugene onegin, she is immediately besotted'. '.strtoupper('e')nigmatic and refined, he seems like a hero from one of her novels'. '.strtoupper('o')negin rejects her, seeing only a naive country girl.will a meeting at a ball many years later offer another chance at love'? '.strtoupper('b')ackground60 years after its creation, oneginands exploration of unrequited affection, impulsive choices and bitter regret still breaks hearts today'. '.strtoupper('f')irst opera, then balletjohn cranko became acquainted with alexander pushkinands verse novel eugene onegin when he choreographed the dances for pyotr ilaposyich tchaikovskyands opera of the same name in 1952'. '.strtoupper('h')e created his own distinctive version of pushkinands work in 1965 for the stuttgart ballet'. '.strtoupper('o')negin displays all of crankoands genius as a narrative choreographer, featuring finely drawn characters who are transformed by the conflicts they face'. '.strtoupper('a') wide ranging roleonegin and tatianaands 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'. '.strtoupper('t')he role of tatiana offers a ballerina many challenges andndash the development of a bookish country girl into a sophisticated woman at the pinnacle of st petersburg society requires dramatic sensibility and technical finesse'. '.strtoupper('c')rankoands choreography incorporates an eclectic range of dance forms, including folk, modern, ballroom and acrobatic'. '.strtoupper('a')n 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 stolzeands soaring arrangements for onegin'. '.strtoupper('t')his includes selections from the seasons, his opera cherevichki and the symphonic fantasy francesca da rimini'. '.strtoupper('a')ssisted performancescaptioned performance thursday 13 february, 7.30pmaudio described with pre performance touch tour saturday 15 february, 7pm |