A timely new Eugene Onegin opens the San Francisco Ballet season

Katherine Barkman and Joseph Walsh in Yuri Possokhov's Eugene Onegin

San Francisco Ballet in Yuri Possokhov's Eugene Onegin

Wona Park and Wei Wang in Yuri Possokhov's Eugene Onegin

San Francisco Ballet in Yuri Possokhov's Eugene Onegin

Katherine Barkman in Yuri Possokhov's Eugene Onegin

By Terez Rose, 25 January 2026

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“a misplaced flirtation sets the characters and story on a course for disaster”

Reviewed at War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco on 23 January 2026

Eugene Onegin (Yuri Possokhov)

San Francisco Ballet

Tom Pye, Set Designer

Tim Yip, Costume Designer

Jim French, Lighting Designer

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

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Terez Rose

Terez Rose is a writer and former dancer whose work has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies and online publications. She is the author (as Terez Mertes Rose) of the Ballet Theatre Chronicles (Off Balance, Outside the Limelight, Ballet Orphans, Other Stages) and A Dancer’s Guide to Africa. Visit her at The Classical Girl where she blogs about classical music and the performing arts.