Macedonian Opera Theater
Music by PI Tchaikovsky
Choreography V. Yaremenko
Production Ukraine Academy of Ballet
distribution Mauro Giannelli
Swan Lake is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed ballets of the nineteenth century, with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and is the first of his three ballets (with The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty) was composed between 1875 and 1876. It’s hard to imagine today as Swan Lake, when it was staged for the first time February 20, 1877 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, could be a big . The ballet that Tchaikovsky was commissioned in 1875 by Vladimir Petrovic Begicev, director of the Imperial Theatres in Moscow and author of the book along with the dancer Vasil Fedorovich Gelcer that drew from an old German fairy tale Der Schleier geraubte (the stolen veil) following the story of Karl August Jophann Musäus, after a few replicas, was withdrawn from the scene. The full version of the ballet and totally renovated (in 3 acts and 4 scenes) finally went on stage January 27, 1895 at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg beginning its real happy story.
Choreographers were the russian Lev Ivanov for white acts (II and IV) and the frenchman Marius Petipa (I and III) which is mainly responsible for the resurrection of the "Lake". This reworked the book, changed some scenes and inserted in the original score some of Tchaikovsky piano pieces orchestrated by Riccardo Drigo, who directed the first representation adding a page of its composition (the grand pas de deux) and making some cuts and transpositions significant. Performer was the acclaimed italian prima ballerina Pierina Legnani, who introduced the role of the black swan (Odile), the notorious and celebrated 32 fouettées. From that moment on, the "Lake" became part of the repertoire first Petersburg and Moscow after winning the love of the public and becoming a classic of dance theater. At present it at the Abbey of San Galgano, in the classical Petipa-Ivanov Yaremenko reviewed, by one of the most important companies of the European scene, the Ballet of the Macedonia National Theater. The company is distinguished not only for the technical quality and expressive coming fron the great russian tradition, as has the originality and beauty of the costumes and scenario and get to San Galgano Abbey after a tour of great success.
Choreographers were the russian Lev Ivanov for white acts (II and IV) and the frenchman Marius Petipa (I and III) which is mainly responsible for the resurrection of the "Lake". This reworked the book, changed some scenes and inserted in the original score some of Tchaikovsky piano pieces orchestrated by Riccardo Drigo, who directed the first representation adding a page of its composition (the grand pas de deux) and making some cuts and transpositions significant. Performer was the acclaimed italian prima ballerina Pierina Legnani, who introduced the role of the black swan (Odile), the notorious and celebrated 32 fouettées. From that moment on, the "Lake" became part of the repertoire first Petersburg and Moscow after winning the love of the public and becoming a classic of dance theater. At present it at the Abbey of San Galgano, in the classical Petipa-Ivanov Yaremenko reviewed, by one of the most important companies of the European scene, the Ballet of the Macedonia National Theater. The company is distinguished not only for the technical quality and expressive coming fron the great russian tradition, as has the originality and beauty of the costumes and scenario and get to San Galgano Abbey after a tour of great success.