Best Swan Lake ever! All dancers and orchestra! Music is overwhelming! After that performance, Gergiev wrote about Lopatkina: “She danced reverently. It seemed like an act of art and act of faith”.
Can't stop watching this sublime performance. I'm a big, burly 62 year old bloke, a builder, but I now can understand a young person yearning to become a dancer. Just recently I was thinking how I liked a few bars from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, here and there, so a week or two ago I was searching to try to find them played at the speed I like, with certain nuances played in the way I like. In my quest I was watching various clips on RU-vid, and then watched a bit of the ballet. I was attracted to the beauty of it all a bit, then a bit more, then the entirety of it. Now, for me the dancing enhances the music such that my enjoyment of the music is doubled, tripled, multiplied. Am wondering if others came here in the same way, at first attracted by the music, but having enjoyed the dancing as well, was now finding it VERY difficult to leave this stunning, incredible work of art to do anything else?
Лопаткина в "Лебедином озере" - это, конечно, высший пилотаж, особенно Одетта. Технично танцуют не так уж мало балерин. Но чтобы танцем разговаривали и выражали чувства - единицы. Как же восхитительно, необыкновенно проникновенно она танцует! Гениальная Одетта и Одиллия. Очень люблю этот балет.
великолепная пара Ульяна Лопаткина (Одетта-Одиллия) и Данила Корсунцев (Принц), маэстро Гергиев за дирижерским пультом..фантастический кордебалет ..Мариинский театр лучший...для меня..его отличает мастерство и необыкновенная теплота спектаклей..Спасибо!!
Pure Heavenly. Ulyana Lopatkina is the artistique figure only occurring once a century, her performance will be epitomized in Classique for generations to come.
이런 작품을 창조해낸 작곡가와 안무가의 천재성에 감탄할 수 밖에 없네요... 이 시기의 러시아에는 무슨 일이 있었던 걸까요? 톨스토이, 도스토예프스키, 체호프같은 문학가부터 차이코프스키같은 음악가와 이런 천재들의 아이디어를 실행하고 구현해준 수많은 연주가와 무용가들... 가끔 현대에도 많은 창작품이 쏟아지고 있지만, 이미 이 시기에 러시아 문화가 보여주었던 통찰과 창의성은 지금의 많은 창작품또한 변주에 지나지 않는다는 생각을 하게 됩니다....tv나 영화관이 없던 시절 마린스키 극장에 방문해서 오케스트라와 발레단의 공연을 보았을 사람들의 감동의 수준이 어땠을까 생각해보곤 합니다..지금도 아마 인생에서 한번 경험하기 어려울 잊지못할 공연인데 말이죠... 로파트키나의 공연을 직관할 수 있었던 사람들이 너무 부럽습니다...같은 공연의 여러버전을 보았지만 마린스키의 공연만큼 백조의 호수를 잘 구현해낸 공연은 아직도 찾지 못하고 있습니다...
I think Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” is by far the most beautiful ballet on stage! The girls are always the most beautiful and talented in the performance! The guys are always precision in their performance as well! A job well done! Peter
Grace and Beauty and Strength - the best Swan Lake performance ever. Choreograph and dancers. Bravo to the Russians! Bravo to St. Petersburg! Bravo the the Mariinsky!
I sincerely believe that Russia has far more emotional geniuses per thousand people than any other peoples of the world. Tchaikovsky was Chief Genius, and there are many close behind him. I truly adore the Russians, they are fabulous people. Probably why for much of my life we in the west (I'm British) were deprived of being with them. I hope now that we are all one, the genius of Russians will rub off on the rest of us. Я искренне верю, что у России есть гораздо более эмоциональные гении на тысячу человек, чем любые другие народы мира. Чайковский был главным гением, и позади него много близких. Я действительно обожаю русских, они невероятны. Возможно, почему за большую часть моей жизни мы на западе (я британцы) были лишены быть с ними. Теперь я надеюсь, что мы все один, гений россиян отрывается в остальных из нас.
That's exactly what I feel. This performance is indeed the work of a large ensemble of geniuses all pulling together. I know of no other walk of life where human mass endeavour leads to such achievement of perfection. Agree with you 100% Ciao.
My favorite Odette/Odile remains Svetlana Zhakarova with her so light fluidity, finesse,subtlety, artistry, legendary arms, hands for which Baryshnikov picked her out,and extensions.
@Richard J. Lanham - Prince Siegfried is danced by Danila Korsuntsev; Odette/Odile is danced by Ulyana Lopatkina. It was filmed (which the Mariinsky Theatre RARELY does) in 2010. It's available on DVD from Amazon. I hope this answers your question.
There is truly nothing on Earth like Russian ballet. Watch the documentary on RT called Ballet La Russe, you'll see how hard they work to achieve this perfection, how the dancers are gasping for air backstage but still manage to dance so that it looks so effortless. I have so much respect for all ballet dancers, though I've never danced myself...This is the closest a human can come to flying
I have a ballerina friend, quite a beautiful, well known dancer, who had to stop her career. When she went (?) 'en pointe' and would spin on one toe, she would release violent farts, even heard over the orchestra. She would be in tears, but the public would be hysterically laughing. So sad and awful for her.
2:03-3:04 The way that Gergiev did the tempo for this part of the Introduction (more slowly) is very excellent, playing it slower adds a different kind of dramatic buildup from the faster recordings (even though I also like the faster tempos of some other performances).
Just watched Royal Ballet's new production, can't help to watch this again. Well nothing really wrong with the Royal Ballet's version, both Lauren Cuthbertson and William Bracewell are competent dancers. Lauren was robust, William did heavy lifting (although not much solo given), but they did not seem to have the emotional connection as the pair here. Lauren lacks the venerability of Uliana as Odette, although technically very good. I also went to a live performance by Paris Opera Ballet, still, this is the best performance by far.
Mesmerizing and Breathtaking!!💞I'm amazed with the beautiful music and the gorgeous dancers Lopatkina is perfection and so is Siegfried and Von Rothbart!!💝
I was just about to write an enthusiastic reply Cheyenne Dior about getting choked up, when I saw that I had already done so, five years ago, ha ha. Still getting choked up, but now I'm really getting old it's every minute or so through the entire performance.
А вы посмотрите запись Лебединого.. в том же театре, только с Игорем Зеленским и Юлией Махалиной! Игорь просто летает, мягко-мягко, точен и безупречен в исполнении и очень благороден. Никак не спутаешь - Принц. Да и Юлия очень нежна и трепетна.
When my son Benjamin was 10 yrs. Young he said to me, mamma, my favorite ballet is " Swan lake" I used to play it on my baby grand piano. My son Ben is my baby grand. He is 50 present German. 25 percent Irish and 25 percent french Canadian American..he lives in linenburg, Massachusetts I have seen him only once in my 25 yes. I miss him. I hope the truth comes out soon. Parousia . Rozan parquet, ferrante. Too beautifufor words to describe l
There are many Swan Lakes on RU-vid. I literally had to go through 7 of them to find Ulyana. Her name is not in the title & the resolution is poor. That's probably why the views are low. Other videos with her name in the title fetch many more views. Believe me, she is the best Odile/Odette of today, maybe ever. True artist.
I enjoyed this more than the American Ballet Theatre version. I’m more of a Nutcracker fan. But I had to watch because of my familiarity with the story thanks to The Swan Princess! Happy New Year 2024
opening music is top notch 🎶👏 the male dancers are so athletic! the swans outdid themselves. I have CDs of this music and a DVD of the ballet with orchestra and this performance is superb.
It is glorious art, to move in ways that defy one's comprehension of normality, but elevates this level of suggestion, style, projection, easy difficulty, as if gravity had no restraining power.The eternal music of Tschaikovsky always exceeds the boundaries of our standards of reality, above, beyond, afar.
What a position poor Siegfried was in, every beautiful, classy daughter of the crowned heads of Europe and Russia, all assembled for him to take his pick. Sometimes life serves you up lemons.
The ballet is for everyone not just some. Some are born with this appreciation whilst others slowly acquire its taste. The taste for its beauty is available to everyone but only some will try to acquire it. And like those who choose wisely what they eat, so too are those who sit gently at the table of the refined, Will at some point appreciate those virtues of this great art.
The sound quality is excellent - just wish we could get the visuals at a higher quality, more definition. Anyone? Does anyone have this on DVD and can upload it? Thank you! Merry Christmas!
A photo of Lopatkina in Swan Lake is the only performer on the bedroom wall of beloved teacher Luidmila Morkovina. She loves her absolutely. Greetings to all her other students.
I don't know why these male dancers are considered effeminate. Yes some of them are gay but they are in amazing shape and look so good in tights. Beautiful strong thighs & bottoms. Love watching them jump around the stage. They're beautiful. Sorry, had to say it.
Sensational Royal dutch Etc A wedding bouquet of tulips And baby s breath With maple leaves from Canada and four leaf clovers from Ireland At my first and last ballet lesson at 7😜 yes young miss parker said my those were perfect pirouettes.where did you learn how to do that. In my room.
I have a ballerina friend, quite a beautiful, well known dancer, who had to stop her career. When she went (?) 'en pointe' and would spin on one toe, she would release violent farts, even heard over the orchestra. She would be in tears, but the public would be hysterically laughing. So sad and awful for her.
