At La Scala the 2021/2022 season closed with a very beloved ballet, “Onegin,” a mainstay of the Milanese repertory for...
With affection, empathy, and a tinge of regret, Russian writer Alexander Pushkin (1797-1837) described in his celebrated novel in verse Eugene Onegin a troubled romantic predicament of its main heroine, Tatiana Larina. “A fashionable tyrant” in question is the novel’s title character, Onegin, a wealthy young man from Saint Petersburg—arrogant, cynical and disdainful—who can’t quite figure out what to do with his life and is suffering from a severe case of apathy and boredom.
Of their recent premiere of Liam Scarlett's “Frankenstein,” Isabella Walsh, newly appointed corps de ballet dancer with San Francisco Ballet, notes, “it's kind of a sad ballet, but really interesting. It's like nothing I’ve done before.”
Many balletomanes (rightly) worship “Onegin” but few of them have read the eponymous novel by Pushkin, a founding father of...
“I am the daughter of two immigrant parents from Venezuela and I was born in the United States. I happen...
One of the greatest challenges—and for me, joys—of being a dance critic is navigating the not infrequent clash between contemporary...
