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...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...
...become principal choreographer of the Sadler's Wells Ballet. In 1961 he took over the mediocre Stuttgart Ballet. With his strong sense of theater and his ability to marry dance and plot, Cranko scored dramatic successes with such works as Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake and Eugene Onegin. The Stuttgart, under his direction, became one of the best companies in the world...
Elaborate Paperchase. The deeps of poetry must be respected, but as Nabokov sternly pointed out in the preface to his Englishing of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, the shallows of translation must be examined with skepticism. This book amply justifies such skepticism. It consists of 39 of Nabokov's Russian poems with his own English translations, 14 poems written in English, and a sly and self-parodying inclusion-18 chess problems...
...dramatic male dancers anywhere. Egon Madsen, a youthful Dane with a baby face, skillfully alternates with Cragun in many dramatic roles: when Cragun is Romeo, Madsen is Mercutio and vice versa. Backing them both up in the rotational order is a German dancer, Heinz Clauss, whose black-clad Eugene Onegin seems as subtly menacing as an elegant spider, as sickly romantic as a young Werther...