Swan Lake

Also known as Lebedinoye ozero

ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Swan Lake is a famous ballet with music composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, telling the story of a princess transformed into a swan. It is considered one of the most important and widely performed ballets in the world, known for its beautiful music and demanding choreography.

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Genre: ballet
Movement: Romantic music
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Image: Wiener Staatsoper Schwanensee Szene Akt4.jpg

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Commons category: Swan Lake
topic's main category: Category:Swan Lake
choreographer: Lev Ivanov
number of parts of this work: 29
date of first performance: 1877-02-20
location of first performance: Bolshoi Theatre
title: Лебединое озеро
opus number: 20
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4

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Encyclopedic overview

Swan Lake (Russian: Лебединое озеро) is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular ballets of all time.

The scenario, initially in two acts, was based on Russian and German folk tales, telling a story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Swan Lake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.