Petipa choreographed Sobeshchanskaya’s pas de deux to music composed by Ludwig Minkus, who held the post of Ballet composer to the St Petersburg Imperial Theatres. Siegfried chooses to die alongside Odette and they leap into the lake. Hansen would go on to become Balletmaster to the Alhambra Theatre in London, and on 1 December 1884, he presented a one-act ballet titled The Swans, which was inspired by the second scene of Swan Lake. —Modest Tchaikovsky, brother of the composer, Animated theatrical and direct-to-video productions, Rudolf Nureyev’s choreography of Swan Lake, 1880 and 1882, Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre, staged by Joseph Hansen after Reisinger, conductor and designers as in première, 1901, Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre, staged by Aleksandr Gorsky, conducted by Andrey Arends, scenes by Aleksandr Golovin (Act 1), Konstantin Korovin (Acts 2 & 4), N. Klodt (Act 3), 1911, London, Ballets Russes, Sergei Diaghilev production, choreography by Michel Fokine after Petipa-Ivanov, scenes by Golovin and Korovin, The 2000 American Ballet Theatre version (taped for television in 2005), rather than having the curtain down as the slow introduction is played, used this music to accompany a new prologue in which the audience is shown how Von Rothbart first transforms Odette into a swan. Tchaikovsky most admired the ballet music of such composers as Léo Delibes, Adolphe Adam, and later, Riccardo Drigo. Since the first published libretto of the ballet and the actual music composed by Tchaikovsky do not correspond in many places, we may infer that the first actual published libretto was possibly crafted by a newspaper writer who had viewed the initial rehearsals, as new productions of operas and ballets were always reported in the newspapers of Imperial Russia, along with their respective scenarios. The première of Swan Lake on Friday, 4 March 1877, was given as a benefit performance for the ballerina Pelageya Karpakova (also known as Polina Karpakova), who performed the role of Odette, with the Bolshoi Theatre’s Première danseur Victor Gillert as Prince Siegfried. Von Rothbart appears and insists that Siegfried fulfill his pledge to marry Odile, after which Odette will be transformed into a swan forever. Some of the numbers are titled simply as musical indications, those that are not are translated from their original French titles. Dynamics - The volume of sound, or the uproar or non-abrasiveness of a musical entry. Ivanov and Petipa chose to collaborate on the production, with Ivanov retaining his dances for the second Act while choreographing the fourth, and with Petipa staging the first and third Acts. Respectively, he created scores of the first three numbers of the ballet, then the orchestration in the fall and winter, and was still struggling with the instrumentation in the spring. Tchaikovsky wrote various letters to friends expressing his longstanding desire to work with this type of music, and his excitement concerning his current stimulating, albeit laborious task. Von Rothbart suddenly appears [Scène. Tchaikovsky most admired Adam’s 1844 score for Giselle, which featured the use of the technique known as Leitmotif: associating certain themes with certain characters or moods, a technique he would use in Swan Lake, and later, The Sleeping Beauty. She has many companions under the same spell, who have made her their queen, hence her title “The Swan Queen.” She is forced to live by a lake that was magically formed from the tears of her grieving mother after Rothbart kidnapped her. Rothbart is a powerful sorcerer who casts a spell on Odette that turns her into a swan every day and returns her to human form at night. Odette also appears in many adaptations of the ballet. Julius Reisinger left Moscow in 1879, and his successor as Balletmaster was Joseph Peter Hansen. His friend Benno and the tutor try to lift his troubled mood. The adaption follows the original, but some parts like the pas de deux was not possible to perform in Second Life and has been changed. After realizing that her last moment of humanity is at hand, Odette commits suicide by throwing herself into the lake. In spite of the poor reaction to the première, the ballet nevertheless continued to be performed. The origins of the ballet Swan Lake are rather obscured, and since there are very few records concerning the first production of the work to have survived, there can only be speculation about who the author of the original libretto was. But unlike the instructions that Tchaikovsky received for the scores of The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, no such written instruction is known to have survived. The part of Odette/Odile was danced by Evdokia Kalmykova, a student of the Moscow Imperial Ballet School, with Alfred Bekefi as Prince Siegfried. The Grand adage (a.k.a. The most authoritative theory appears to be that it was written by Vladimir Petrovich Begichev, director of the Moscow Imperial Theatres during the time that the ballet was originally produced, and possibly Vasily Geltser, Danseur of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre. Guests arrive at the palace for a costume ball. A lakeside clearing in a forest by the ruins of a chapel. In the final tableau, the lovers are seen rising together to heaven in apotheosis. This is 100% legal. Like Odette and Von Rothbart, he appears in many adaptations of the ballet, although he has a different name in almost every one, despite retaining some or all of his characteristics. There are also some productions where Odette and Odile are danced by two different ballerinas. The Russian ballet patriarch Fyodor Lopukhov has called Swan Lake a “national ballet” because of its swans, which he argues originate from Russian lyrically romantic sources, while many of the movements of the corps de ballet originated from Slavonic ring-dances. [Scène: Allegro, Tempo di valse, Allegro vivo] Odette appears as a vision and vainly tries to warn Siegfried that he is being deceived. He aims his crossbow at the swans [Scène. He is a young Prince, full of bright spirit and enthusiasm, and seems to have little interest in his royal role. A is from 00:03 to 00:11. The première of the Petipa/Ivanov/Drigo was quite a success, though not as much of one as it has been in modern times. The piece was a standard pas de deux classique that consisted of a short entrée, the grand adage, a variation for the dancer, a variation for the ballerina, and a coda. When Odette falls in love with Prince Siegfried, hope for her freedom has come at last, until Siegfried is tricked into breaking his vow by Von Rothbart, trapping Odette as a swan forever. It has 2 main musical ideas that keep being repeated. Prince Siegfried is the lead male ballet dancer role. This act of sacrifice and love breaks Von Rothbart’s power, and he is destroyed. As evening falls [Sujet], Benno sees a flock of swans flying overhead and suggests they go on a hunt [Finale I]. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger. However, his fate is different in some versions, as there are productions where Rothbart is triumphant and survives.