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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.
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.
1 lis 2022 · Swan Lake represents the fight of good versus evil, depicted via two opposing swans – the vulnerable and delicate White Swan, and the seductive, deceptive Black Swan. Initially, the characters were performed by two different ballerinas, but this has evolved into the famous customary dual role with the White and Black swans danced by the same ...
Swan Lake is a romantic ballet in four acts. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote the music. In 1871 he wrote a little ballet about swans for his nieces and nephews. He used some of the music from this ballet for Swan Lake. The story of the ballet is based on a German fairy tale.
History. 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. The ballet's original title, as indicated on the manuscript score, was The Lake of Swans or Lake of the Swans (Озеро ...
Swan Lake was commissioned in 1875 by Vladimir Petrovich Begichev, the director of the Moscow Imperial Theatre for 800 rubles—about $24,000 in today’s money. A bargain for an orchestral score that in performance lasts nearly three hours and took Tchaikovsky, working at top speed, a year to complete.
4 mar 2024 · Swan Lake is one of the most popular of all classical ballets, and the first of Tchaikovsky ’s three ballets (the others being The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker) that opened a golden age...