Critics at the first performance were universal disparaging. Hansen set about re-staging Swan Lake, launching his new version in January A planned revival of the ballet in the early s was cast into doubt by the death of Tchaikovsky in November The revised version, commonly the version of the score used today, premiered in January to overwhelmingly positive reviews.
Swan Lake is the most commonly staged ballet in the world. TV A new online only channel for history lovers. I haven't spoken with anyone at SO who could shed some light on this, though -- I'm just speculating. I had seen those ratings on the Bolshoi site and always assumed they were suggested guidelines for parents, but after ticket-holding, pre-pubescent children were physically prevented from seeing Swan Lake , it appears that they are actual rules.
Absurd, really, especially when the child is accompanied by an adult. In Moscow there is a dedicated opera, ballet and musical theater house for children. Very confusing. Confusing indeed. We have relatively few hard-and-fast age restrictions in the US, and often chafe at the few we have how many of us have gritted our teeth when we had to accompany our teens to an "R" rated film, even though we knew they were fine with the content.
I know that other cultures develop the guidelines that seem to work for them, but I wonder if the families in Russia "agree" with these categories.
Yesterday at a performance of Onegin I sat next to a family with a young daughter, probably about age 7 and sitting on a booster seat. She was quiet, well behaved and didn't talk during the performance.
It was her father who yawned out loud a couple of times. She wasn't able to read the ballet's synopsis on her own, but judging by her comments at the intermissions, she was following the action, and she didn't seem distressed by what she saw.
Thank you for posting , volcanohunter. I'm completely bemused by this. You'd think the Russians of all people would know better? I remember reading that studios would actually gear their movies toward a PG or R rating, because young people would shun a G rated picture as kid stuff.
Not my favorite Odette, but it was a matinee and we were afraid she'd fall asleep in the evening. She was mesmerized throughout, didn't move a muscle. Everyone around us commented on how much she seemed to love it--which she did. She has been taking ballet lessons ever since. This Site Uses Cookies. He made use of material from The Voyevoda , an opera that he had abandoned in The Grand adage a. By April the score was complete, and rehearsals began.
His letters to Sergei Taneyev from August indicate, however, that it was not only his excitement that compelled him to create it so quickly but his wish to finish it as soon as possible, so as to allow him to start on an opera.
Respectively, he created scores of the first three numbers of the ballet, then the orchestration in the fall and winter, and was still struggling with the instrumentation in the spring. By April the work was complete. Tchaikovsky wrote various letters to friends expressing his longstanding desire to work with this type of music, and his excitement concerning his current stimulating, albeit laborious task.
Karpakova likely also danced the part Odile, although it is not known for certain. Most of the critics were not themselves familiar with ballet or music but rather with spoken melodrama. Yet the fact remains and is too often omitted in accounts of this initial production that this staging survived for six years with a total of 41 performances — many more than several other ballets from the repertoire of this theatre.
Sobeshchanskaya travelled to St. Word of this change soon found its way to Tchaikovsky, who became very angry, stating that, whether the ballet is good or bad, he alone shall be held responsible for its music. Petersburg again to have the Ballet Master arrange a new pas for her.
This production was far more well-received than the original, though it was by no means a great success. For this production Hansen arranged a Grand Pas for the ballroom scene which he titled La Cosmopolitana.
Hansen would go on to become Balletmaster to the Alhambra Theatre in London, and on 1 December , he presented a one-act ballet titled The Swans , which was inspired by the second scene of Swan Lake.
The ballet was given during two concerts which were conducted by Tchaikovsky. During the late s and early s, Petipa and Vsevolozhsky considered reviving Swan Lake and were in talks with Tchaikovsky about doing so. However, Tchaikovsky died on 6 November , just when plans to revive Swan Lake were beginning to come to fruition.
It remains uncertain whether Tchaikovsky was even going to revise the music for the prospected revival of Swan Lake. In February , two memorial concerts planned by Vsevolozhsky were given in honor of Tchaikovsky. The Ballerina who danced Odette and Odile was the Italian virtuosa Pierina Legnani, and it was because of her great talent that the prospected revival of Swan Lake was planned for her benefit performance in the — season.
However, the death of Tsar Alexander III on 1 November and the period of official mourning that followed it brought all ballet performances and rehearsals to a close for some time, and as a result all efforts were able to be concentrated on the pre-production of the revival of Swan Lake.
Ivanov and Petipa chose to collaborate on the production, with Ivanov retaining his dances for the second Act while choreographing the fourth, and with Petipa staging the first and third Acts. Aside from the revision of the libretto the ballet was changed from four acts to three—with Act II becoming Act I-Scene 2. Most of the reviews in the St. Petersburg newspapers were positive.
Even more surprising, the ballet was performed only four times in and The ballet belonged solely to Legnani until she left St.
Petersburg for her native Italy in Throughout the long and complex performance history of Swan Lake the edition of Petipa, Ivanov, and Drigo has served as the version from which many stagings have been based.
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