DAVID HALLBERG, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: This production of Swan Lake is a complete defining moment for me as artistic director. BENEDICTE BEMET, ODETTE/ODILE: It's, such a big ballet, I don't know, if ...

Beautiful clarinet music filled the Citizens Opera House on opening night of Boston Ballet’s “Swan Lake,” welcoming patrons back to the story just three years after the ballet was last performed by ...

“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 Reisinger.

Property developers and industrial waste are the villains in this ‘Swan Lake for the ecocide era’, propelled by athletic choreography full of swagger Swan Lake isn’t one of those stories that connects ...

As he pondered reinventing one of ballet’s greatest masterpieces for 2023, the Australian Ballet’s artistic director David Hallberg had a big decision to make: should Swan Lake have a happy ending?

Over the course of this day I will sit in on barre work, admire sets created by 3D printers warehoused in a huge hangar, and talk to ­dancers, conductors and costumiers working at the peak of their ...

“It’s a mesmerizing ballet,” said Cervilio Miguel Amador. “Truly magical.” Amador, artistic director of Cincinnati Ballet, is talking about “Swan Lake,” which will hit the Music Hall stage Feb. 13-21.

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