2022 / AROP evening / Ballet

13 Dec.

Swan Lake

Opéra Bastille

19h30

Duration

2h55

Dress Cocktail attire

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1st part

19h30

Intermission cocktail

20h50

2nd part

21h15

End of the performance

22h25

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.

Swan Lake

Production de 1984 - Rudolf Noureev