Dear Tour Diary Readers,
greetings from Beijing! After a long day of travel on Monday, and a much needed day of rest for the dancers on Tuesday – which many spent travelling to the Great Wall of China – class and rehearsals for John Cranko’s Onegin started in the Tianqiao Theatre, home of the National Ballet of China. The theatre was built in 1953 and was the first theatre built in Beijing after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. In 1980, the Stuttgart Ballet performed in China for the first time in this very theatre – with John Cranko’s Onegin. For the celebrations of the 60th Anniversary of the the National Ballet of China, we are returning with this ballet at the special request of our hosts.
Photos: Roman Novitzky and Martí Fernández Paixà
The Tianqiao Theatre
Company class in the studio of the theatre
Artistic Director Tamas Detrich runs the rehearsal of Onegin in the studio
Before leaving Taiwan, rehearsals for Onegin had already begun: here with Hyo-Jung Kang as Tatiana and Roman Novitzky as Onegin (Photo: Martí Fernández Paixà)
Hyo-Jung and Roman in rehearsal for Onegin (Photo: Martí Fernández Paixà)
Hyo-Jung and Roman in rehearsal for Onegin (Photo: Martí Fernández Paixà)
Hyo-Jung and Roman in rehearsal for Onegin (Photo: Martí Fernández Paixà)
The musical notes for Onegin
Anna Osadcenko as Tatiana and Clemens Fröhlich as Prince Gremin in rehearsal for John Cranko’s Onegin
nna Osadcenko as Tatiana and Clemens Fröhlich as Prince Gremin in rehearsal
nna Osadcenko as Tatiana and Clemens Fröhlich as Prince Gremin in rehearsal
nna Osadcenko as Tatiana and Clemens Fröhlich as Prince Gremin in rehearsal
Anna Osadcenko and Clemens Fröhlich with ballet misteress Yseult Lendvai in rehearsal
Hyo-Jung Kang as Tatiana