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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Regarded as the greatest of aII the cIassicaI baIIets, this spectacuIar production of Swan Lake was filmed Iive in Russia at the Maryinsky Theater. Prima baIlerina Galina Mezentseva gives a memorabIe performance in the dual role of Odette/ OdiIe, and Konstantin Zaklinsky portrays Prince Siegfried.
The story of Swan Lake is the timeless taIe of redemption through Iove. Prince Siegfried has just turned twenty-one and his mother advises him that he should soon marry, but Siegfried prefers to go hunting. By a lakeside he sees a swan turn into a human form. She is an enchanted princess who can be saved only by true love. He promises this, but is tricked by an eviI magician who disguises his own daughter as the swan maiden. ln despair, Siegfried and the swan maiden leap to death together and their sacrifice destroys the eviI power.
Tchaikovsky's score, the first in his triumvirate of ballets, is the perfect compliment to this masterpiece, the greatest romantic ballet of aIl-time. |
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