Swan Lake Op 20

Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) is one of the most famous ballets ever. Composed in 1875/76 and premiered in 1877 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Swan Lake is still part of the standard repertoire of classical ballet companies today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dINWPvfzp-s&t=227s

The production of the ballet classic performed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov in 1895 at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg had a great influence all subsequent performances of Swan Lake.

This video shows the classic Kirov production by Oleg Vinogradov, based on the choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov at the Kirov Theater in Leningrad from 1990 – as a television production without an audience. It contains neither scene applause nor the long shot of the stage that is usual in live footage. Rather, in addition to overall views, there are many close-ups of individual dancers or small groups of dancers. This version includes the court jester character and has a happy ending: Siegfried fights with von Rothbart, defeats the evil magician, and is reunited with Odette at the end.