They say a classical ballet isn’t over until the female protagonist dies. Tchaikovsky’s popular 1870s Swan Lake is a prime example. Turned into a white swan by Baron Von Rothbart, Odette perishes in ...
Swan Lake is such a pretty name for a ballet. It sounds like the perfect place to cavort with friends and find the love of your life, graceful white birds gliding by, and the moon working its magic.
When “Swan Lake” premiered at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater in 1877, composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky didn’t have the best of days. Critics labeled Tchaikovsky’s new ballet as “too noisy and too Wagnerian ...
“Swan Lake” is such a pretty name for a ballet. It sounds like the perfect place to cavort with friends and find the love of your life, graceful white birds gliding by and the moon working its magic.
“Swan Lake” premiered in 1877 with a libretto of uncertain authorship, a score by neophyte ballet composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and choreography, now lost, by the now forgotten Julius Reisinger.
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