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 ...

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 ...

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.

Move over, Carabosse and Von Rothbart. There's a new ballet villain in town. Onegin is human, but his capacity for breaking hearts makes him scarier than the sorcerers of The Sleeping Beauty and Swan ...

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 ...