Matthew Ball and Vadim Muntagirov on playing Lensky in Onegin (The Royal Ballet)

Dancers of The Royal Ballet, Matthew Ball and Vadim Muntagirov on what the role of Lensky means to them. Find out more at John Cranko became acquainted with Alexander Pushkin’s verse-novel Eugene Onegin when he choreographed the dances for Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s opera of the same name in 1952. He created his own distinctive version of Pushkin’s work in 1965 for the Stuttgart Ballet. Onegin displays all of Cranko’s genius as a narrative choreographer, featuring finely drawn