A perfect example of a modern “dance drama” inspired by Aleksandr Pushkin’s novel in verse, which Cranko rewrote with skill and sensitivity, Onegin returns to the stage at La Scala from 14 to 26 September. PHOTO: Brescia – Amisano
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The protagonist of four of the nine performances is l’étoile Roberto Bolle who returns to take on the shady clothes of Onegin, a young aristocrat bored by life who lets slip what he will recognize too late as true, great love. Near him Marianela Nuñez, Principal of the Royal Ballet, to renew an already acclaimed liaison artistic. Photo: Brescia – Amisano
Roberto Bolle and Marianela Nuñez protagonists already in 2019. VIDEO
G.great unhappy love story, Onegin shows Cranko’s ability to reinvent a written story and tell it in pure dance terms. For example, in the love game between the four young protagonists of the first act (Tat’jana, Ol’ga, Lenskij and Onegin) and the three adult protagonists in the second act (Tat’jana, her husband Prince Gremin and Onegin). Photo: Brescia – Amisano
Roberto Bolle’s lesson in Piazza Duomo
Ballet in three acts and six paintings, Onegin allows to exalt the interpretative peculiarities of the corps de ballet in the ensemble dances – the festive ones of the peasants, the bourgeois ones of the provincial lords and the grand aristocratic dance of the third act – and of the main performers, in two steps of extraordinary expressive power. Photo: Brescia – Amisano
Already from the second date, September 15, the first change of cast, with the return of a couple that has already fascinated during the previous performances: they will be Marco Agostino And Nicoletta Manni to reinterpret the roles of Onegin and Tat’jana, which they will also perform on 21 September. Photo: Brescia – Amisano
Manni-Andrijashenko: surprise marriage proposal on stage
In subsequent performances, other casts to discover, with important debuts: on September 22nd Gabriele Corradoin the role of Onegin that she has already represented in past seasons, will lead to her debut in the role of Tatiana Alice Mariani, freshly nominated as prima ballerina. Photo: Brescia – Amisano
September 24 Timofej Andrijashenko and Martina Arduino they will face the roles of Onegin and Tat’jana for the first time. Photo: Brescia – Amisano
On September 26, they will be protagonists for the first time instead Nicola del Freo and Vittoria Valerio. Photo: Brescia – Amisano
Alongside the protagonists, no less important in the dramaturgical development of the ballet, the roles of Olga, Lenskij and Prince Gremin: at the opening of performances (14 September) Olga and Lenskij will be interpreted by Martina Arduino And Nicola Del Freo, and in reruns on 17 and 20 September. Photo: Brescia – Amisano
In subsequent performances they will be on stage Agnese Di Clemente and Claudio Coviello (on 15, 21 and 23 September). Photo: Brescia – Amisano
And then Alessandra Vassallo with Mattia Semperboni (in his debut as Lensky). Photo: Brescia – Amisano
In the photo Mattia Semperboni – Photo: Brescia – Amisano
Also debuts on 24 and 26 September: they will be on stage Caterina Bianchi and Navrin Turnbull. Photo: Brescia – Amisano
Prince Gremin will be played by Gabriele Corrado (in the photo), Edoardo Caporaletti and (debuting in the role) Gioacchino Starace. Photo: Brescia – Amisano
In the photo Claudio Coviello. Photo: Brescia – Amisano
Pictured Navrin Turnbull. Photo: Brescia – Amisano
Nine performances therefore with interpreters all to follow, due to the interpretative density to which the protagonists are called. In the photo Nicola del Freo with Vittoria Valerio. Photo: Brescia – Amisano
He will return to the podium Felix Korobov, conducting the score, to music by Tchaikovsky, but without even a single note from his work Evgenij Onegin. In the photo Nicoletta Manni with Marco Agostino. Photo: Brescia – Amisano
With the elaboration of Kurt-Heinz Stolze, Cranko’s trusted collaborator, the choice was in fact to orchestrate some pieces for piano, some of which are taken from the cycle of the Seasons, and to extrapolate some moments from symphonic poems such as Francesca da Rimini and Romeo and Juliet as well as from the opera I capricci by Oksana or Vakula the blacksmith – better known with the title Gli stivaletti. Photo: Brescia – Amisano
The assembly and orchestration of the various pieces were conceived in relation to the dramatic expressiveness of each piece, linked to the concept of making this ballet a complete theatrical show that in the repertoire staging at La Scala bears the signatures of Pier Luigi Samaritani and Roberta Guidi di Bagno and the lights by Steen Bjarke. Photo: Brescia – Amisano
Roberto Bolle and Marianela Nuñez in Onegin. Photo: Brescia – Amisano
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