Dance: Opulent and ornate
Classy, energetic: Momoko Hirata and Mathias Dingman.
CLIVE BOOTH
This version achieves clarity in storytelling; the first act has a “mates’ party” for Prince Siegfried’s birthday, with no folk- people dances, ending in a swan’s hunt.
NOBODY CAN resist the appeal of Swan Lake, one of the most popular of classical ballets. A story of love and tragedy stitched by fantasy, with a spectacular score by Tchaikovsky, it was first staged in Moscow in 1877, then revived in 1895 by choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with the structure of acts, big ensemble dances, pas de deux and solos that characterises narrative full-length works.
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