Move over, Carabosse and Von Rothbart. There's a new ballet villain in town. Onegin is human, but his capacity for breaking hearts makes him scarier than the sorcerers of The Sleeping Beauty and Swan ...
The appeal of John Cranko’s Onegin is its leading characters, star parts with stormy emotions for dancers to get their teeth into. It returns to the Royal Ballet with a fascinating mix of established ...
Natalia Osipova’s portrayal of Tatiana takes John Cranko’s choreography into raw, revelatory places, remaking the ballet afresh For a dancer, there’s a very fine line between interpreting choreography ...
In the Met’s much-anticipated revival of Tchaikovsky’s EUGENE ONEGIN--the Met's lobby was rocking before the performance--almost anything that could go wrong, in fact, did, at Monday night’s premiere.
Based on Alexander Pushkin’s novel Eugene Onegin, it tells the story of Onegin, a flaneur who, seeking new thrills, leaves St. Petersburg, flirts with his Best Friend Lenski’s fiancée, duels with – ...
Woulda coulda shoulda. The low hum of regret runs through Onegin, as a summer idyll turns to sorrow. John Cranko’s 1965 ballet is based on Eugene Onegin. Less spiky than Pushkin’s original poem, less ...
As the doomed friend of a Byronic anti-hero, Vadim Muntagirov dances with lyrical freshness and immediacy. Making his debut as Lensky, he helps to lift this Royal Ballet revival of John Cranko’s ...