Word: onegin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EUGENE ONEGIN. Drawn from Pushkin by the composer and his librettist friend Konstantin Shilovsky, this is an exquisitely melancholy romance about a girl (Tatiana) who grows up and a cad (Onegin) who does not. The Bolshoi production dates from 1944, and the company treats it with veneration...
Among several casts, the singing of Bari tone Mazurok (Onegin) and Tenor Vla dimir Atlantov (Lensky) is solidly sono rous, and as Tatiana, Tamara Milashki-na sings with a full lyric voice that is gratifyingly free of the shrill vibrato heard from so many Russian sopranos...
...What Onegin and Pique Dame have in common with everything else done by the Bolshoi is a strong sense of es prit, unity and permanence. In the best Stanislavsky tradition, this is a troupe that performs as a dedicated ensemble...
...American premiere, 80 mammoth crates, each the size of a truck, were shipped across the Atlantic. They contained 400 wigs, 70 white gowns for the ball in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, a 14-ft.-wide chandelier for Prokofiev's War and Peace, plus more than 350 tons of other props, costumes, turntables, snare drums (eight for War and Peace's battle scenes alone) and vodka for everybody...
John Cranko, founder of the Stuttgart Ballet in 1961, molded it into a company of world rank with his ballets on great classical themes: Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, The Taming of the Shrew. Cranko's traditional style stressed drama and athleticism. Ballet audiences were therefore stunned when, after Cranko's sudden death in 1973, American Choreographer Glen Tetley was appointed his successor. An iconoclast of the dance, Tetley, 49, raises conservative eyebrows high with his infusion of modern dance idioms into ballet. Again, unlike Cranko, he has always been known for relatively small dance pieces that concentrate...