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Swan Lake is generally presented in either four acts, four scenes (primarily outside Russia and Eastern Europe) or three acts, four scenes (primarily in Russia and Eastern Europe). The biggest difference of productions all over the world is that the ending, originally tragic, is now sometimes altered to a happy ending.
This idea is conveyed in two ways: first, her movements imitate Odette’s from the prior act, including wing-like arm movements. And second (and in Siegfried’s defense), Odette and Odile are danced by the same dancer.
4 mar 2024 · Read our guide to Tchaikovsky’s romantic masterpiece ‘Swan Lake’ – one of the greatest and most popular classical ballets.
Swan Lake (ballet), Op.20 (Tchaikovsky, Pyotr) Movements/Sections Mov'ts/Sec's. 4 acts. Composition Year. 1875–77 A ; 1894–95 B (arr. Riccardo Drigo and Modest Tchaikovsky) Genre Categories. Ballets; Theatrical Works; For orchestra; Scores featuring the orchestra; For piano (arr); For 1 player (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr); For ...
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.
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.
Swan Lake (suite), Op.20a (Tchaikovsky, Pyotr) Movements/Sections. 6 or 8 movements. Composition Year. 1900 A, 1954? Genre Categories. Suites; For orchestra; Scores featuring the orchestra; Related Works. Extracted from Swan Lake (ballet), Op.20.
