MK Swan Lake (7pm-St. Petersburg)

http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/afisha/20060205-2

Sun, 5 Feb 2006, 19:00

Swan Lake

fantasy ballet in three acts (four scenes)

Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Choreography: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (1895)

revised choreography and stage direction: Konstantin Sergeyev (1950)

Ulyana Lopatkina

Igor Zelensky

Conducted by Alexander Polyanichko

The II festival Maslenitsa

Ulyana Lopatkina (Odette) Danila Korsuntsev (Siegfried) Foto by ©Natasha Razina

Libretto: Vladimir Begichev and Vasily Geltzer

Set design: Igor Ivanov

Costume design: Galina Solovyova

World premiere: 20 February 1877, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow (choreography by Julius Reisinger)

Premiere in St Petersburg: 15 January 1895, Mariinsky Theatre (choreography by Lev Ivanov and Marius Petipa)

Premiere of Konstantin Sergeyev´s version: 8 March 1950, Kirov Theatre, Leningrad

Running time: 3 hours 15 minutes

(As of 28 Jan 06)