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Swan Lake (Russian: Лебеди́ное о́зеро, romanized: Lebedínoje ózero, IPA: [lʲɪbʲɪˈdʲinəjə ˈozʲɪrə] listen ⓘ), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular of all ballets.
1 lis 2022 · Many interpretations of Swan Lake have been made – notably Frederick Ashton’s 1987 version (which saw the most revivals by the Royal Ballet), and indeed Matthew Bourne’s 2007 ground breaking all-male Swan Lake which was arguably the biggest shake-up to the ballet since the Mariinsky revival.
11 mar 2018 · The ballet's content is based on a Russian folktale, and over the course of two acts, tells the story of a princess turned into a swan. (Read the synopsis of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.) On March 4, 1877, Swan Lake premiered at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre.
4 mar 2024 · Read our guide to Tchaikovsky’s romantic masterpiece ‘Swan Lake’ – one of the greatest and most popular classical ballets.
3 lis 2020 · The Russian composer was the 19th century’s true master of dance music. Today, Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake remain sure-fire hits for ballet companies around the world. It’s remarkable, then, that when Swan Lake was premiered in 1877, the reception it garnered was lukewarm at best.
Swan Lake (Лебединое озеро), Op. 20 (TH 12 ; ČW 12), was the first of Tchaikovsky's ballet scores, composed between August 1875 and April 1876, with additions and revisions in February and April 1877.
26 mar 2024 · When Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake debuted at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in 1877, it was considered a failure. Almost 150 years later, it has become the ballet that epitomises ballet itself.
