Ballet Austin on May 6-8 will stage a Mother's Day production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake." It is one of the Russian composer's most famous works, with a soundtrack so ...

It’s been nearly a century-and-a-half since Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed the ballet “Swan Lake.” Today it’s one of the most popular ballets of all time. So, why mess with it?

Tchaikovsky's father was a successful mining engineer while his mother was the artistic, sensitive one, French by birth, and a good linguist. Pyotr was the second of ... and the initial failure of his ...

“It’s been a multi-year plan,” said Liang, who, this time, contributed his own choreography set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ... by the scale of “Swan Lake”: In addition ...

Set to Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's dramatic ... From romance to reality, from reaction to reflection, Swan Lake is an elating journey across so many human states and emotions that it is difficult ...

When “Swan Lake” premiered at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater in 1877, composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky didn’t have the best of days. Critics labeled Tchaikovsky’s new ballet as “too noisy ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was the first Russian composer whose work would make a lasting impression internationally, with Swan Lake and The Nutcracker propelling him into classical music immortality.

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” tells the story of Odette, a young princess, who is cursed by an evil sorcerer named Baron Von Rothbart to turn into a swan. One day, Odette encounters ...

That effort continues, as Stoianov and the Grand Kyiv Ballet are coming to Indianapolis, where they’ll present the ballet masterpiece “Swan ... written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

“Swan Lake” premiered in 1877 with a libretto of uncertain authorship, a score by neophyte ballet composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and choreography, now lost, by the now forgotten Julius ...

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