LONDON — In the summer of 1975, WWD reported that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made a rare appearance at the Metropolitan Opera House after the death of her shipping tycoon husband, Aristotle Onassis.

A packed and unusually buzzing house on Wednesday evening reminded one just how popular Onegin is. Which, in theory, might come as a surprise. After all, its creator, John Cranko, was not in the same ...

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 ...

Based on Pushkin’s masterpiece of Russian literature, Tchaikovsky’s great opera tells of the fated love between the innocent Tatyana and the world-weary cynic Eugene Onegin. The opera includes the ...

Far worse things happen to characters in other operas by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, but “Eugene Onegin” sweeps the competition for its depiction of crippling interpersonal damage. By the time Ralph ...