Ballet Onegin in Bratislava

The story of unrequited love as an emotionally colored choreographic canvas. A ballet in three acts based on the famous novel by Alexander Pushkin comes to the stage of the Slovak National Theatre.

One of the most beautiful dramatic titles in ballet literature comes to the stage of the Slovak National Theatre in the choreography of the legendary John Crank and in a beautiful classical stage set.

Tatiana lives in the countryside and knows the big world only from books. However, the world appears in their family home in the form of the bon vivant Eugene Onegin, who turns Tatiana’s head. Onegin haughtily rejects her feelings and, after a conflict, shoots his friend Lensky in a duel. Since then, he has been on the run from himself as a “superfluous man.” After many years, he attempts to rekindle his relationship with Tatiana, who has become a true lady of high society through her marriage to Prince Gremin. After her rejection, Onegin becomes even more painfully aware of the emptiness of his life.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s adaptation of Pushkin’s verse novel Eugene Onegin marked a turning point in the history of opera in 1879. His sincere fascination with Tatiana’s unrequited love led Tchaikovsky to create a unique musical expression with which he sought to distance himself from the operatic pathos of his time. In his “lyrical scenes,” with their subtle psychological insight and irony toward romanticism, he depicted the skepticism of a weary era and society.

Cast:

Onegin – Andrea Schifano, Vladyslav Bosenko, Jakob Feyferlik

Tatiana – Olga Chelpanova, Romina Kołodziej, Tatum Shoptaugh

Lensky – Viacheslav Kruť, Adrián Szelle, Wisse Scheele, Giorgio Perego

Oľga – Rio Nakata, Nozomi Miura, Caterina Marchetti, Sarah Trinder

Gremin – Marián Kuchar, Mergim Veselaj, Andrea Schifano

Madam Larina – Katsiaryna Kavaleuskaya, Monika Lehocká, Ilinca Ducin

The Nanny – Sarah Millner, Reona Sato

Performers – soloists and chorus of the SND Ballet, orchestra of the SND Opera

Production Team

Choreography John Cranko

Music Kurt-Heinz Stolze after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Set and costumes – Elisabeth Dalton

Costume adaptation – supervision Diana Eckmann

Lighting design – Steen Bjarke

Study – Jane Bourne

Supervision – Reid Anderson-Graefe

Musical staging – Martin Yates

Conductor – Adam Sedlický, Martin Yates

The production is suitable for audiences aged 10 and over.

Performance duration: 2 hours 30 minutes with two intermissions

Location: Slovak National Theatre, Pribinova, Bratislava

Performance dates:

Saturday 16. 5. 2026 – 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Admission: 19 – 55 €

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