The Royal Swedish Opera's dramaturge Katarina Aronsson meets Emily Slawski and Daniel Norgren-Jensen, both dancers in the Royal Swedish Ballet, and Nicolas Le Riche, artistic director, in a conversation before the premiere of Nurejev's final - and best? - version of the ballet Swan Lake.
Nureyev's
SWAN LAKE
AVAILABLE UNTIL: APRIL 27
RUNNING TIME: 2 HR 27 MINS
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Difficult to get tickets for the »ballet of ballets«? Now you have the opportunity to see Swan Lake with the Royal Swedish Ballet digitally. For copyright reasons, however, we only have the opportunity to show the performance in Sweden.
Prince Siegfried is under pressure in his new role as regent. His mother and his teacher want him to marry a woman he doesn't love. Siegfried escapes into a fantasy world and falls madly in love with a beautiful swan; a symbol of the freedom and romantic love he so desperately longs for. What the prince doesn't know is that the swan is actually an enchanted princess named Odette.
Swan Lake premiered in 1877 and was almost considered a fiasco. Only after Tchaikovsky's death, in a completely new choreography, was the version we usually call the "classic" born in 1895. Since then, it has been subjected to countless revisions and strains, additions, abridgements, local arrangements and even film adaptations. After Rudolf Nureyev's earlier versions of Swan Lake (London 1962 and Vienna 1964), his production at L'Opéra de Paris in 1984 is considered his conclusivve and definitive version. And it is the version that, until 2021, had never before been performed in Sweden. Swan Lake is otherwise one of the most performed works of all time, at the Royal Swedish Opera more than 830 times in total.
Available until April 27, 2024 in Sweden only.