ROYAL CLASSICAL BALLET - SCHWANENSEE

Classical ballet - what do you think of first? In nine out of ten cases, the image of a petite dancer in a white shimmering tutu, her face framed by white feathers, arises in the mind's eye. Add to this a noble prince who falls madly in love with the dream creature.... Unknowing from where, yet always the same image from Swan Lake. This one performance embodies what for many defines classical ballet - then and now.

Over 100 years of undisputed popularity with international audiences, make Swan Lake one of the most beloved works from the classical ballet repertoire! An outstanding masterpiece of its genre. One can become addicted to Swan Lake. "If you don't know Swan Lake, you can't understand ballet in the first place," say ballet critics.

"It is a love of which no one need be ashamed, for nowhere else has classical ballet reached such artistic perfection as in this neo-romantic choreography by Lev Ivanov."(Horst Koegler)

It is true for ballet in general and for Swan Lake in particular: Love and longing, loneliness and jealousy, anger, pain and happiness - all the great emotions are to be portrayed with body language so fervently and oversized as one would never take it from the spoken word. "If I could express with words what I feel, I would not need to dance." That's how the famous Margot Fonteyn summed it up in a few words.

In the finest traditional ballet language, the ballet tells the story of Prince Siegfried, Princess Odette and the magician Redbeard, of longing, loneliness, jealousy, anger, pain, happiness and, above all, of the victory of love over evil.