LONDON — In the summer of 1975, WWD reported that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made a rare appearance at the Metropolitan Opera House after the death of her shipping tycoon husband, Aristotle Onassis.

In early August, six of Houston Ballet’s most accomplished dancers – three women and three men, working in pairs -- were thrilled to finally be learning the leading roles of a ballet some of them have ...

For those balletomanes who have found the fare a bit austere and abstract in this fast-concluding San Francisco Ballet season, “Onegin” is back as the final program of the year. Based on Alexander ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. John Cranko's Eugene Onegin is often referred to as a "story ballet for ...

Houston Ballet Principals Aaron Robison as Onegin and Yuriko Kajiya as Tatiana rehearsing John Cranko’s Onegin. Credit: Photo by Alana Campbell (2025). Courtesy of Houston Ballet It’s a story driven ...

But Manon has all those showy pas de deux, I hear you cry – can Onegin match those? It has its pas de deux but they compare in neither number nor showiness, I'll admit – and that's the point. Manon ...

Cranko took the predictable love melodrama - I want you, I don't, actually I do, well now I don’t - and turned it into a full-length, three act ballet. It divides people - some love it, some less so.

With Onegin, a three-act ballet choreographed in 1965 by the gay South African John Cranko, San Francisco Ballet brought their 2016 season to a sensational close. It is a romance that belongs in an ...

Boston Ballet last presented “Onegin” in 2002. It’s been too long. As 20th-century story ballets go, John Cranko’s 1965 work ranks with the Prokofiev-scored “Romeo and Juliet” and “Cinderella.” And ...

The two have many similarities, from their basis in novels that became operas (though Prévost's Manon Lescaut antedates Pushkin's verse Eugene Onegin by a century), through their patched-together ...