THE BOLSHOI THEATRE

 

Swan Lake Ballet

 

Acte 1 Introduction

Acte 1 Scène 1

Acte 1 Valse

Acte 1 Scène 2

Acte 1 Pas de Trois

Acte 1 Pas d'action

Acte 1 Danse des coupes

Acte 2 Scène 1

Acte 2 Scène 2

Acte 2 Scène 3

Acte 2 Danse des Cygnes

Acte 2 Scène 4

Acte 3 Allegro Giusto

Acte 3 Scène 1

Acte 3 Scène 2

Acte 3 Scène 3

Acte 3 Pas de six

Acte 3 Danse Hongroise

Acte 3 Danse Russe

Acte 3 Danse

Espagnolea

Acte 3 Danse

Napolitaine

Acte 3 Mazurka

Acte 4 Danse des petits

cygnes

Acte 4 Scène 1

Acte 4 Scène Finale

 

Piotr Ilyich Tchaïkovsky was born on May, 7th 1840 in Russia, in Oural. His father was an engineer of Ukrainian descent who served as a lieutenant colonel in the Department of Mines and his mother was really a beautiful woman but suffered from psychic instability. When he was 5 y.o, he received his first piano lessons.

 

Really passionate by the music, he started to study composition and instrumentation with Anton Rubinstein. On June 1854, the composer suffered the shock of his mother’s death from cholera. Tchaïkovsky’s career really started in 1869. In 1876, he began a 13-year association with Nadezha Von Meck, a wealthy widow. Her support became an important element in Tchaïkovsky’s life because she paid and allowed him to resign from the Moscow Conservatory in 1878 to concentrate on composition. From 1880, he often made trips to Florence in one of Miss Von Meck’s property. There, he will compose several masterpieces as The Queen of Spades.

 

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