SWAN LAKE is Now Playing at the Opera National de Paris
Performances run through 1 January.
It is hard to believe that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's first ballet, Swan Lake, created in 1877 for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, was a failure, so striking is its music's melodic power. It was not until twenty years later - but Tchaikovsky was already dead - that the ballet was brought to the stage in the choreography of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov.
Almost one hundred years later, Rudolf Nureyev reshuffles the deck by giving his own choreographic interpretation to this impossible story between Prince Siegfried and Odette, a woman transformed into a swan by the sorcerer Rothbart.
In creating his version for the Paris Opera Ballet in 1984, Rudolf Nureyev gave greater depth to the psychology of the prince, torn between his duty and his dreams, and illuminated Tchaikovsky's poetic dream with a desperate depth.

Videos
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CHRONIQUES DE VIE SANS HISTOIRE THEATRE LA CARRETERIE (7/21-7/25) |
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LES PETITES FILLES MODERNES TH DU ROND POINT-SALLE RENAUD BARRAULT (2/25-3/14) |
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C''EST SI SIMPLE L''AMOUR RADIANT - BELLEVUE (5/04-5/04) |
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DRAG RACE FRANCE LIVE SAISON 4 - DRAG RACE FRANCE LIVE L'AMPHITHEATRE (11/12-11/12) |
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LION, LE ROI EST DE RETOUR THEATRE SEBASTOPOL (10/18-10/18) |
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HITCHCOCK & MARY ROSE TH. DES GEMEAUX - SALLE DES COLONNES (7/04-7/25) |
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LE PETIT THEATRE DES OPERATIONS - LE PETIT THEATRE DES OPERATIONS - JULIEN HERVIEUX THEATRE COMEDIE ODEON (6/20-6/20) |
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LE FILIP THEATRE 100 NOMS (12/09-12/09) |
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PATRICK LE CHINOIS dans ITINÉRAIRE BIS MELO D'AMELIE (9/03-9/24) |
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UN ESPOIR LA SCENE LIBRE (9/04-9/27) |
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