Description
The Paris National Opera presents the most beautiful ballets from its repertoire on the big screen. Here is the famous ballet "Swan Lake," choreographed by Rudolf Nureyev, based on the work of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov.
A magical ballet set to Tchaikovsky’s sparkling music, *Swan Lake* was first staged in 1877 at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and later restaged by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. Nearly a century later, in 1984, Rudolf Nureyev presented his own interpretation of the ballet at the Paris National Opera.
A ballet in two acts.
Choreography by Rudolf Nureyev, based on Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Conductor: Vello Pähn
Starring: Paul Marque, Sae Eun Park, Pablo Legasa
Country: France.
Prince Siegfried is urged by his parents to choose a wife, but at the edge of a lake he meets a mysterious swan maiden, Odette, who has been bewitched by the sorcerer Rothbart. Only a sincere vow can save her. Captivated, he swears eternal love to her—until he meets Odile, the black swan...
