Swan Lake - Matinée "Rêve d'enfants"

Le Lac des cygnes

Production de 1984 - Rudolf Noureev

• Conductor

  Vello Pähn

• Music

  Piotr Ilyitch Tchaïkovski

• Libretto

  Vladimir Begichev

• Libretto

  Vassili Geltser

• Choreography

  Rudolf Noureev
  After Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov

• Set design

  Ezio Frigerio

• Costume design

  Franca Squarciapino

• Lighting design

  Vinicio Cheli

It is hard to believe that Piotr Illytch Tchaikovsky’s first ballet, Swan Lake, composed in 1877 for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, was a failure, given the melodic force of his score. It was only twenty years later, when Tchaikovsky was already dead, that this ballet was revived on stage with a choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanon. Almost a century later, Rudolf Nureyev reshuffled the cards with his own choreographic reading of the impossible love affair between Prince Siegfried and Odette, the young woman transformed into a swan by the sorcerer, Rothbart. In his 1984 version for the Paris Opera Ballet, he gives greater psychological depth to the prince, torn between his duty and his dreams, and illuminates Tchaikovsky’s poetic dream with profound hopelessness.

Les Étoiles, les Premiers Danseurs et le Corps de Ballet de l’Opéra
Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris

Le Lac des cygnes

Production de 1984 - Rudolf Noureev