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This is a list of notable major productions of the ballet Swan Lake.Throughout the long and complex performance history of Swan Lake, the 1895 edition of Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, and Riccardo Drigo has served as the definitive version on which nearly every staging has been based, having been mounted by many noted ballet masters and choreographers from the late 19th century until the present day.
Swan Lake (Balanchine) Swan Lake. (Balanchine) Swan Lake is a one-act ballet made by New York City Ballet 's co-founder and ballet master George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky 's eponymous music (1875–56). The premiere took place Thursday, 20 November 1951 at the City Center of Music and Drama, New York.
Barbie of Swan Lake (2003) is a direct-to-video children's movie featuring Tchaikovsky's music and motion capture from the New York City Ballet and based on the Swan Lake story. In this version, Odette is not a princess by birth, but a baker's daughter; instead of being kidnapped by Rothbart and taken to the lake against her will, she discovers ...
The 1895 Petipa/Ivanov/Drigo revival of Swan Lake is a famous version of the ballet Swan Lake, (ru. Лебединое Озеро), (fr. Le Lac des Cygnes).This is a ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky based on an ancient German legend, presented in either four acts, four scenes (primarily outside Russia and Eastern Europe), three acts, four scenes (primarily in Russia and Eastern Europe) or ...
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky[ n 1 ] ( / tʃaɪˈkɒfski / chy-KOF-skee; [ 2 ] 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) [ n 2 ] was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current ...
Robin Martin, a 72-year-old student, danced seriously for nearly three decades and earned a ballet degree from Texas Christian University. When she was 27 years old, she took on the role of a ...
Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux[ a] is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to a composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky originally intended for act 3 of Swan Lake (Op. 20, 1875–76). [ 2] With costumes by Barbara Karinska and lighting by Jack Owen Brown, it was first presented by New York City Ballet at the City Center of Music and Drama, New ...
The New York-based Youth America Grand Prix has operated the world’s largest student ballet scholarship competition since 1999. The previous record for ballerinas on pointe en masse was 306 ...