This article is about the ballet. For other uses, see Swan Lake (disambiguation).
Swan Lake
Choreographer
Julius Reisinger
Music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Premiere
4 March [O.S. 20 February] 1877 Moscow
Original ballet company
Bolshoi Ballet
Genre
Classical ballet
Ballets by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake (1876)
The Sleeping Beauty (1889)
The Nutcracker (1892)
List of all compositions
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Swan Lake (Russian: Лебеди́ное о́зеро, tr. Lebedínoje ózero, IPA:[lʲɪbʲɪˈdʲinəjəˈozʲɪrə]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 ballets of all time.[1]
The scenario, initially in two acts, was fashioned from Russian and German folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger (Václav Reisinger). The ballet was premiered by the Bolshoi Ballet on 4 March [O.S. 20 February] 1877[2][3] at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Although it is presented in many different versions, most ballet companies base their stagings both choreographically and musically on the 1895 revival of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, first staged for the Imperial Ballet on 15 January 1895, at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. For this revival, Tchaikovsky's score was revised by the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatre's chief conductor and composer Riccardo Drigo.[4]
^"Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Years of fame". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
^Kant, Marion, ed. (2007). The Cambridge Companion to Ballet. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-521-53986-9.; 'Old style' date 4 March
^Chaĭkovskiĭ, Modest Ilʹich; Newmarch, Jeaffreson; Rosa Harriet (1906). The life & letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. J Lane. p. 735.
^"Swan Lake Ballet 2018 India". BookMyShow. Archived from the original on 6 March 2018.
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