Swan Lake is a classic russian ballet, composed by Pyotr Tchaikovsky in 1875-1876. Swan Lake is a ballet that has become a symbol of Russian art itself.

 

The performance’s original scenario was based on fairy tales about princess Odette, turned into a swan by evil curse and resqued by prince Siegfried’s love.

 

 

World premiere of Swan Lake took place at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on 20 February 1877, the choreographer of the production was Julius Resinger. Despite the fact, his work was considered unsuccessful by the critics of the day, Resinger’s original production of Swan Lake was kept in the active repertoire of the Bolshoi Theatre for seven years and was performed over thirty times.

 

The second birth of the performance was on 15 January 1895 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St.Petersburg. The revival by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov is a basis for most ballet companies, staging Swan Lake nowadays.

 

 

It is also woth mentioning Swan Lake premiere in London in the Ballets Russes theatre, performed by glorious Sergei Diaghilev with choreography made by Michel Fokine, which took place in 1911.

 

The Swan Lake performance survived for more than a century without any significant changes since Maruis Petipa’s times and nowadays is being staged in more than 290 theatres all over the world.

 

 

The St. Petersburg Festival Ballet was created in 2009 to represent the best traditions and spirit of St. Petersburg ballet. The company has for the past five years performed on some of the biggest stages of Europe and enjoyed great success in countries such as Germany, Austria, Italia, Finland, Sweden, Poland, Iceland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia and Slovakia.