Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed only three ballets — all now among the world’s most popular — and the Kansas City Ballet ...

Read our guide to Tchaikovsky’s romantic masterpiece ‘Swan Lake’ – one of the ... conductor and long-serving Director of Music of the Imperial Ballet of St Petersburg.

The show must go on. That’s what happened in the third act when Philadelphia Ballet opened Swan Lake, set to the classic Tchaikovsky score, on Thursday at the Academy of Music. Sterling Baca, as ...

The Philadelphia Ballet always shines, but there is a certain sweet spot when Artistic Director Angel Corella has a chance to ...

Unity Phelan rehearses for her role as Swan Queen in New York City Ballet's Swan Lake, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) Unity Phelan rehearses for her role ...

The performance of Swan Lake is brought to life by principal dancers Anna Stoianova, playing Odette, and Daniel Kish, playing ...

“Swan Lake” premiered in 1877 with a libretto ... The solo playing all evening was exemplary, and overall the Boston Ballet Orchestra, under music director Mischa Santora, sounded as sumptuous ...

It was a busy winter: Ashley Bouder bid farewell, Mira Nadon dazzled in “Swan Lake,” Maria Tallchief ... Tallchief was New York City Ballet’s first star, a thrilling dancer and a part ...

Any new production of Swan Lake will face some degree of scrutiny ... Much has been made of this being a feminist interpretation in which the swans are manipulated and abused women. While a good ...

22, the extent of my experience with ballet ... music from unseen speakers. The tune was familiar — one of those pieces of classical music that everyone recognizes, Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.” ...