The Royal Ballet
SWAN LAKE
Live in cinemas: Wednesday 24 April 2024, 7.15pm BST
Running time 210 minutes (including two intervals)
Choreography Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Additional Choreography Liam Scarlett and Frederick Ashton
Music Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Production Liam Scarlett
Designer John Macfarlane
Lighting designer David Finn
Conductor Martin Georgiev
Cast TBC
Royal Ballet Sinfonia
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Out hunting, Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans. One among them transforms into the beautiful human Odette and he is immediately enamoured. But Odette is bound by a spell which keeps her captive as a swan during the day. Can Siegfried free her? Tchaikovsky’s sensational score combines with the evocative imagination of choreographer Liam Scarlett and designer John Macfarlane to heighten the dramatic pathos of Marius
Petipa and Lev Ivanov’s quintessential ballet classic. Swan Lake remains to this day one of the best–loved works in the classical ballet canon.