The most loved and mesmerizing of classical ballets, "Swan Lake" was Tchaikovsky's first. It was composed in 1875 and over 100 years later it remains a favorite with ballet companies regularly performing it throughout the world.

"Swan Lake" is a timeless love story that mixes magic, tragedy, and romance into four acts. It features Prince Siegfried and a lovely swan princess named Odette. Under the spell of a sorcerer, Odette spends her days as a swan swimming on a lake of tears and her nights in her beautiful human form. The couple quickly falls in love. As in most fairy tales, things are not that easy and the sorcerer has more tricks to play. That brings Odile, his daughter, into the picture. Confusion, forgiveness, and a happy ending with Siegfried and Odette together forever round off the ballet.

 

 

 

 

Born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, she graduated from the Ballet School of the Dnepropetrovsk Opera and Ballet Theatre in 2002 and the same year joined the ballet company of the theatre. In 2008–2009 Oksana trained at the Moscow State Ballet Academy.

In 2009–2014, she was a dancer with the Mikhailovsky Theatre, where her repertoire included roles of Kitri (Don Quixote), Sylphide (La Sylphide), Odette — Odile (Swan Lake), Medora, Gulnara (Le Corsaire), Jacinta (Laurencia), Jeanne (The Flames of Paris), Nikiya, Gamzatti (La Bayadere), Princess Aurora, Gold Fairy, Force Fairy (The Sleeping Beauty), Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), as well as roles in the ballets In a Minor Key (chor. by Slava Samodurov), Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness, Prelude, Without Words, Invisible (chor. by Nacho Duato). In 2014–2017, she was a dancer with the Mariinsky Theatre. Since 2018, she has been a guest ballerina with t e Mikhailovsky Theatre.

 

Alexey Lyubimov
Graduated from the Perm State Ballet School in 1999 and joined the Stanislavsky Ballet company in 2000.

 

Alexey Lyubimov is the only soloist in the Company to have been chosen for the leading part in all three John Neumeier’s productions with the Stanislavsky Ballet: “The Seagull” (2007), “The Little Mermaid” (2011) and “Tatjana” (2014). As a guest soloist with other companies he performed the parts of Ivan in “Ivan the Terrible”, Nutcracker Prince in “The Nutcracker”, Tybalt in “Romeo and Juliet”, etc.