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 ...
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.