Thank you for this "Swan Lake" with two exceptional principals who dance so well together and understand the essence of their characters. The corps, sets, costumes and music are beautiful. 💖💖💖
I have seen many versions of The Swan Lake, this one was made by Vladimir Bourmeister after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov ; Bourmeister was Tchaikovsky’s grand-nephew. This version is the top !
Choose a bride from his mothers selections reminds me of the concubine selection in the forbidden city. Also the armpits scene. Is there any turkish,japanese or chinese ballet with harem scene?
This is real and great ART. Beautiful, brilliant and all is a perfect match! Bravoooo for the dancers What a Masterpiece this is!! Thank you ! 💖💕👐👐👐👐🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹💗
Anche attorialita ' in questo mirabile balletto che contempla una ottima fibrillazione dei passi sulle punte in eundo veloce della ballerina ed una levità fatta tensione motile sorprendente. Ottime le pose figurali dell'ensemble e la impressione sensibile di grande facilità esecutiva d'acchito da parte di entrambi. Ottimo il senso del continuum dato alla pièce danzante.Superlativi tutti gli agenti in proscenio. BIGHIN GIULIO RENZO. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I think someone else pointed out that your "narration" isn't exactly the way Bourmeister's version plays out here. If you look at the reconstruction, also done by LaScala, the lovers dying and then floating off to eternity in the little boat actually was the original ending and I think that's what the apotheosis was written to reflect. There are several Royal Ballet videos and at least two ABT recordings with this ending. To me, it's not tragic, it's triumphant---the lovers are reunited and headed off to Paradise, the swan maidens are free of the spell, and Von Rothbart dies. Even when I've seen dancers "sell" this ending (thank you, Evgenia Obravtsova), I hate the way Bourmeister tinkered with the Black Swan pdd where Odile does her 32 fouettes but the national dancers coopt nearly all the rest. But I guess these days, it's in fashion to monkey with the ending. I know there's at least one version where Siegfried ends up marrying Odile. I'll get off my soap box now and put in a bid for La Bayadere, esp Makarova's version, which reflects the original Temple Destruction ending. This is a cute idea, sorry I crabbed.
Yes there are some different interesting versions. Some choreographers prefer a less tragic ending for example, while there are other versions where the focus is more on some aspects of the narration than others. Thank you as always for your comments, we'll consider your idea for the next ones 💪❤️
Brilliant idea! La Scala version with Bourmeister's choreography is my favorite!!! It is the happiest version I know. So, the narration with drowning and reunion in eternity is actually not the plot intended for this version (and this makes Swan Lake complicated, because actually both are meant to be reunited again, but not dead here. It is a version somehow between the "English/American drowning death" ending (based on Petipa's concept) and the "Russian killing the sorcerer and celebrating although there is a corpse on stage" happily ever after (the later development). # More fun facts in this version: - The usual Black Swan Pas de deux is in this version as originally intended in Act 1, and Siegfried dances it with a princess. - The eventual Black Swan Pas de deux adagio is the additional pas de deux for Act 3, nowadays known as "Tchaikovsky Pas de deux". - Odile dances a variation from the Pas de six (No. 19) - also here as music in the video. The coda is the coda from Pas de six (No. 19). - All national dances are Rothbart's trick to help Odile luring Siegfried. - Bourmeister was the first version adding a prologue with Odette's enchantment. -The same Bourmeister production is running at the Stanislawsky ballet. More fun facts about Swan Lake: - Tchaikovsky did never witness the success in the today's version of choreography and plot line because Petipa reworked it after his death--- (-----I think somehow I start a channel on my own.....)
Thank you so so much for this comment, it's been interesting to read all of these infos and fun facts! Some of them are probably unknown to the majority of people 😊❤️ Waiting for more comments like this on our channel 😉💪
@@DanceLineBallet Actually, I began digging into Swan Lake versions and history because I originally only knew the happy ending version, but when I watched the tragic ending (recording with Fonteyn/Nurejew without a reunion), I was so confused that I wanted to find out more about Swan Lake, and somehow I always wanted to prove the possibility for happily ever after in Swan Lake. It inspired me for own retellings and especially, learning more and more about the ballet history of Swan Lake. At the moment, I'm also thinking about using RU-vid as channel for my ideas, although I'm not sure with copyright etc. and I had not so much time for it, and probably,I won't have much time for it. My observations are especially based on the 1877 libretto, reading the tale "The Stolen veil" and in comparison to other works by Tchaikovsky and also works he admired (in my opinion, the tragic ending of Swan Lake is mostly influenced by Bizet's Carmen) and in comparison reading with other ballet librettos (I was astonished, by "quotes" from the ballet La Peri.)...Because I'm not actually professional in this case, I only wrote a bit such as on Wattpad, and sometimes I think no one would be interested, because Tchaikovsky's original Swan Lake is far different from the Swan Lake we are used to see and know; and I can't see Swan Lake any more like everyone else because of my research..... The biggest problem with Swan Lake research is in my opinion that the main sources and inspirations for the ballet are no tales with swans!
@@felicity1877 Did you find the libretto for the real original original ballet (the one that flopped). I know when I say "original" I'm mainly referencing the 1895(ish) made for a Tchaikovsky commemoration. As I mentioned above, I really don't like Bourmeister's 3rd act because of that darned coda for the Black Swan. I can live with the ending, although what you're referring to as the "tragic" ending is really heroic and what that glorious apotheosis was written for. Tragic is, as you've mentioned, they both die, one or the other dies and the one left alive is also left alone. There's a good YT video with 10 different endings including the one where Odette bourees off to live life as a swan and the Prince marries Odile. I'm curious about one I've read about in which VR and Odile reconcile with the lovers, get forgiven, and go on to live good lives---which is kind of a Russian novel ending. Nice to encounter another viewer who takes her research seriously!
@@felicity1877 Your comments are invaluable for a former dancer and ballet crazy person. I grow up watching and later on dancing in SL but in the Royal Swedish version we had what our teachers told I was the Bolshoi ending, that is the happy ending. I then saw it in London with the Royal ballet and I cried like crazy because it was the dying ending. I was 10 so excuse the tears. Thank you again🙏😍
@@lasylphide-s5j Thank you so much for appreciating my thoughts! I only knew the happy ending at first and was very devastated watching the movie adaption with Nurejev and Fontayn, as first encounter with the tragic ending, and this set my journey for Swan Lake research...
