Swan Lake Ballet Introduction
Act I
Princess Augusta has been transformed into a white swan by the evil magician Rotbart. Only the one who truly loves her, swears loyalty to her and keeps his oath can redeem her.
Act II
Prince Siegfried is hunting by a lake when he comes across a flock of white swans, including Ojeta. Siegfried and Ojeta fall in love with each other. Siegfried swears that he will always be faithful to Ojeta and will free the girls from the control of the wizard (magic).
Act III
Siegfried's mother, the Ruler Princess, holds a banquet in her castle for the Prince to choose his bride. The prince, who is in love with Ojeta, refuses to choose a bride. At this point, the evil wizard appears in the castle as a knight, bringing his daughter, Odilia, who is identical to Ojeta. Sigfrid, mesmerized, mistakes Odzilia for Ojeta and chooses her as his bride. The evil wizard triumphs.
Act IV
Siegfried realizes his mistake and rushes to the lake. He pleads for Ojeta's forgiveness, but she leaves. The oath of loyalty is broken and Ojeta is unable to escape the wizard's control (magic). A storm comes and the lake floods. Seeing that the prince's life is in danger, Ojeta rushes to him defiantly. Ojeta and Sigfrid overcome the evil. The evil wizard dies and the storm calms down. The white swan becomes Princess Ojeta.
Moscow State, Russia
About the Ballet of the Theater of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Conservatory
The Theater of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Conservatory was founded on September 1, 1941 and is located in Moscow next to Pushkin Square. It was formed by the merger of the Stanislavsky Theater and the Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater. The theater has an opera house and two concert halls. The repertoire includes operas and ballets by classical composers such as Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Puccini and Verdi.
Theater Ballet formed in the former Soviet Union period of the Moscow State Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater Ballet (hereinafter referred to as the Stanley) is currently the second largest ballet company in the city of Moscow, with more than a hundred performers, second only to the city's “Ballet Carrier” Bolshoi Theatre, and with the Bolshoi Theatre and other top tier companies. The company also maintains close cooperation with the Bolshoi Theater and other top tier companies. Sergei Filin, the current director of the Bolshoi Ballet, was once the artistic director of the Stani Dance Company, and former Bolshoi Theater chief Uvannov became the instructor of the Stani Dance Company after he bid farewell to the stage.
The Ballet of the Stany Theater in the former Soviet Union, due to a series of works of the then Artistic Director Burmester, not only in the Soviet Union in the company's fame, and influence even spread to Western European countries. One of the most well-known is the Burmester version of “Swan Lake”, which was performed for many years at the Paris Opera House and Milan's La Scala Theater, and many art lovers in our country have watched this version of the performance through the disk video, which was in fact born in the Stany Dance Company. Burmester became the first Soviet choreographer authorized by the Cold War authorities to choreograph a work for a Western European company.
Burmester was the director of the Steiner until his death, and he left behind for the Steiner an image of realist theater style that remains to this day. This style also made the Stanley different from the Mariinsky, the Bolshoi Theatre and other famous troupes that favored the Russian classical style, a unique asset in terms of artistic style.
In 2022, at the age of 24, Maxim Sevagin succeeded French dancer and ballet master Laurent Hilaire as director. Maxim Sevagin graduated from the Vaganova Ballet School in Russia. His big works for the stage include choreographing and directing the one-act ballet “Infallible Error” at the Ekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater and the Prokofiev ballet “Romeo and Juliet” at the Stanilavsky Music Theater.
Maxim Sevagin, the theater's current ballet artistic director and choreographer
Time: October 3, 13:00/19:30
Tickets: 980/780/580/380/180/80
Duration: 190 minutes (including two-act intermission 60 minutes)
Unlimited children's height, admission by ticket