Alexander Pushkin is considered the founder of Russian literature and is easily the country’s most celebrated poet. For the centennial of Pushkin’s 1837 death, the Moscow Chamber Theatre commissioned ...

At first blush, Eugene Onegin looks like a total jerk. A rich 19th-century dandy, he callously rejects the girl who’s fallen for him, seduces her sister, kills her brother-in-law and then crawls back ...

Completed in 1832, Alexander Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” is Russia’s most beloved literary work, and it’s spawned an opera by Tchaikovsky, ballets by John Cranko and Boris Eifman, and a number of films.

Emotional intensity, sinuous technique, and a fierce sensuality characterize the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg’s “Onegin,” which received its Southern California Premiere at the Orange County ...

John Cranko's 1965 ballet Onegin, based on Alexander Pushkin's narrative poem, is a compelling but dramatically flawed work. The story tells of mousy Tatiana, who falls in love with Onegin, a wealthy ...

Peter Tchaikovsky wrote Eugene Onegin in the late 1870s, inspired by his own troublesome love life, as well as a passionate story by Pushkin. ACT ONE begins at a country home. Tatyana and her sister ...

STONEHAM — In the opening scene of “Onegin,’’ a musical based on the verse novel by Pushkin and the opera by Tchaikovsky, the show’s aim is spelled out: “We hope to please, we hope to charm, we hope ...

Russia's first theatrical production of the poet Alexander Pushkin's great novel in verse is lightened with dance In Moscow's Arbat Street, tourists and souvenir shops have taken over from the ...