Eugene Onegin
Casting
Wednesday, January 28, 2026 AT 7:30 pm
CHOREOGRAPHER
Yuri Possokhov
MUSIC
Ilya Demutsky
LIBRETTO
Valeriy Pecheykin
BASED ON THE NOVEL BY
Alexander Pushkin
Scenic Designer: Tom Pye
Costume Designer: Tim Yip
Lighting Designer: Jim French
Projection Designer: Finn Ross
Assistants to the Choreographer: Frances Chung and Adam Blyde
Drama Coach: Javier Galitó-Cava
Project Management: Donna Bachman
World Premiere: January 23, 2026–San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House; San Francisco, California
This production of Eugene Onegin is a co-production of San Francisco Ballet and The Joffrey Ballet.
Music: Original composition commissioned by San Francisco Ballet and The Joffrey Ballet. Libretto based on Eugene Onegin; A Novel in Verse, by Alexander Pushkin, a new translation by James E. Falen, Oxford World’s Classics. Additional text source Winter Evening, by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Walter Arndt. Assistant Lighting Designer: Erin Earle Fleming. Property Supervisor: Lily Mollgaard. Fight Director: Martino Pistone. Scenic construction and painting by Bay Productions Limited. Additional scenic construction and painting by San Francisco Ballet Scene Shop. Costumes constructed by The Joffrey Ballet Costume Shop.
Eugene Onegin
Casting & Credits
Wednesday, January 28 AT 7:30 pm
CHOREOGRAPHER
Yuri Possokhov
MUSIC
Ilya Demutsky
LIBRETTO
Valeriy Pecheykin
BASED ON THE NOVEL BY
Alexander Pushkin
Scenic Designer: Tom Pye
Costume Designer: Tim Yip
Lighting Designer: Jim French
Projection Designer: Finn Ross
Assistants to the Choreographer: Frances Chung and Adam Blyde
Drama Coach: Javier Galitó-Cava
Project Management: Donna Bachman
World Premiere: January 23, 2026–San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House; San Francisco, California
This production of Eugene Onegin is a co-production of San Francisco Ballet and The Joffrey Ballet.
Music: Original composition commissioned by San Francisco Ballet and The Joffrey Ballet. Libretto based on Eugene Onegin; A Novel in Verse, by Alexander Pushkin, a new translation by James E. Falen, Oxford World’s Classics. Additional text source Winter Evening, by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Walter Arndt. Assistant Lighting Designer: Erin Earle Fleming. Property Supervisor: Lily Mollgaard. Fight Director: Martino Pistone. Scenic construction and painting by Bay Productions Limited. Additional scenic construction and painting by San Francisco Ballet Scene Shop. Costumes constructed by The Joffrey Ballet Costume Shop.
CONDUCTOR: Ming Luke
*Eugene Onegin: Francesco Gabriele Frola
*Tatiana Larina: Sasha De Sola
*Vladimir Lensky: Esteban Hernández
*Olga Larina: Madeline Woo
Prince Gremin: Myles Thatcher
Praskovya Larina: Joanna Berman
Zaretsky: Luca Ferrò
Filpyevna, the Nanny: Katita Waldo
Narrator: Alex Jennings
ACT I: SPRING
FUNERAL ATTENDEES: Jakub Groot, Lleyton Ho, Lucas López, Justin-Cooper Meeks, Dylan Pierzina, Logan Shaw, Jasper True Stanford, Asher Stephenson,
Benjamin Taber, Alexis Francisco Valdes
MAIDS: Sofia Albers, Rimi Nakano
LEAD SPRING SPIRIT: Seojeong Yun
SPRING SPIRITS: Maya Chandrashekaran, Anna Chaziroglou, Carlota Cruz, Jacey Gailliard Aaliyahmarie Key, Hui-Wen Peng, Amelia Soh, Juliette Windey
SUMMER SPIRITS: Rubén Cítores Nieto, Benjamin Davidoff, Jakub Groot, Andris Kundzins, Simone Pompignoli, Logan Shaw, Jasper True Stanford, Mingxuan Wang
ACT II: SUMMER
TATIANA’S FRIENDS: Rebecca Blenkinsop, Anatalia St. Clair, Leili Rackow
NIGHTMARE CREATURES: Lleyton Ho, Katharine Lee, Lucas López, Justin-Cooper Meeks, Hui-Wen Peng, Benjamin Taber, Alexis Francisco Valdes
GUESTS OF THE BALL: Anna Chaziroglou, Carlota Cruz, Gabriela Gonzalez, Lleyton Ho, SunMin Lee, Lucas López, Justin-Cooper Meeks, Hui-Wen Peng,
Dylan Pierzina, Anatalia St. Clair, Asher Stephenson, Benjamin Taber, Alexis Francisco Valdes, Juliette Windey
THE BAND: Charlie Carberry, Quinn Gladstone, Jonah Hess, Sawyer Jordan, Raul Noyola Morales
INTERMISSION
ACT III: AUTUMN
AUTUMN SPIRITS: Kamryn Baldwin, Sasha Mukhamedov, Victor Prigent, Joshua Jack Price, Julia Rowe, Mingxuan Wang
OFFICERS: Benjamin Davidoff, Simone Pompignoli, Jasper True Stanford
ACT IV: WINTER
GUESTS OF THE BALL: Maya Chandrashekaran, Anna Chaziroglou, Carlota Cruz, Benjamin Davidoff, Gabriela Gonzalez, Lleyton Ho, Aaliyahmarie Key,
SunMin Lee, Lucas López, Justin-Cooper Meeks, Hui-Wen Peng, Dylan Pierzina, Logan Shaw, Amelia Soh, Jasper True Stanford, Anatalia St. Clair, Asher Stephenson, Benjamin Taber, Alexis Francisco Valdes, Juliette Windey
WINTER SPIRITS: Sofia Albers, Rebecca Blenkinsop, Rubén Cítores Nieto, Carlota Cruz, Benjamin Davidoff, Jacey Gailliard, Gabriela Gonzalez, Jakub Groot,
Lleyton Ho, Aaliyahmarie Key, Andris Kundzins, Rimi Nakano, Hui-Wen Peng, Logan Shaw, Jasper True Stanford, Asher Stephenson, Juliette Windey, Adrian Zeisel
*Cast changes will be announced to the audience prior to each performance.