Swan Lake has been staged several times at Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theater stage.

 

First performance of Swan Lake’s second act took place in 1907 on the benefit concert in the name of O. Preobrajenskaia by Petersburg Imperial Theatre Ballet Company. Odette/Odile was performed by O. Preobrajenskaia herself, Siegfried P. Kozlov.

 

On March 12, 2016 Ballet Company presented an adapted choreographic version of Swan Lake.

 

 

Swan Lake tells the story of enchanted love between a swan maiden and a prince and their battle with an evil sorcerer. The poetry of this timeless ballet is the swan, embodied in every note of Tchaikovsky’s majestic score. Romantic, passionate, tragic and elegant, this great ballet speaks deeply and universally to audiences everywhere.

 

 

Nina Ananiashvili took first steps towards ballet art at the age of 10. She studied at Tbilisi Choreographic School, in the class of Tamara Vikhodtseva. In 1977, she pursued her education at Moscow Choreographic School, under tutorship of prominent pedagogue Natalia Zolotova.

 

 

Nina Ananiashvili is the only ballerina honored with the four most prestigious international ballet awards: Varna (Bulgaria) X International Competition Gold Medal (1980), Moscow IV International Competition Grand Prix (1981), Moscow V International Competition Gold Medal (1985) and Jackson (US) III International Competition Grand Prix (1986).

 

 

Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre
Founded in 1851, Tbilisi Opera is the main opera house of Georgia and one of the oldest such establishments in eastern Europe. The opera house is one of the centers of cultural life in Tbilisi and was once home to Zacharia Paliashvili, the Georgian national composer whose name the institution has carried since 1937. The Opera and Ballet Theatre also houses the State Ballet of Georgia under the leadership of internationally renowned Georgian ballerina Nina Ananiashvili.