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Mariinsky Ballet: Swan Lake

St. Petersburg's historic Mariinsky Ballet presents its signature staging of Tchaikovsky's mysterious, lyrical, and dramatic Swan Lake, hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "a vision of Romantic ballet heaven."

Jan. 28 - Feb. 2, 2014
Opera House
$29.00 - $150.00

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Mariinsky Ballet
Valery Gergiev, Artistic Director
Yuri Fateev, Deputy Director of the Ballet Company

with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra

Swan Lake
Choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (1895)
Revised choreography and stage direction by Konstantin Sergeyev (1950)
Libretto by Vladimir Begichev and Vasily Gelteser

"A sublime account of the world's best-loved ballet"
--The Guardian

"A vision of Romantic ballet heaven… Tchaikovsky never had it so good."
--San Francisco Chronicle

St. Petersburg's historic Mariinsky Ballet--one of the most influential classical companies for more than two and a half centuries--returns with Konstantin Sergeyev's bewitching 1950 production of Swan Lake, based on Petipa and Ivanov's immortal 1895 masterpiece and danced to Tchaikovsky's glorious score.

The Los Angeles Times proclaims: "Swan Lake, in the hands of the Mariinsky Ballet, is an experience of classicism that few can duplicate"--from the tender romance that blossoms between Odette and Prince Siegfried by a moonlit lake to the seductive "Black Swan" pas de deux featuring Odette's nemesis Odile. With their unparalleled upper-body elegance and beautiful arms, the Mariinsky corps de ballet's formations of ghostly swans are a must-see experience in a production where the forces of evil are no match for true love.