Tschaikovsky’s stirring melodies usher in the season with a one week run of Swan Lake. A stunning romantic tragedy, this seminal ballet is shaped by Tschaikovsky’s heartbreakingly beautiful score and the central role of Odette/Odile, an interpretation that is both technically and emotionally demanding.
In 1996 the Royal Danish Ballet presented Peter Martins’ new full-length version of Swan Lake, the last of the enduring 19th-century Russian ballets. Although it was also the last of the famed Tschaikovsky-Petipa classics, Swan Lake was actually the composer’s first ballet score. It was commissioned in 1875 by the Moscow Imperial Theater, now the Bolshoi Theatre.
Tschaikovsky, who thought that ballet was “the most innocent, the most moral of the arts,” suggested the libretto. Years earlier, as a family entertainment, he had composed a short ballet based on a German fairy tale about a wicked sorcerer who turns young girls into birds.
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Swan Lake
First Preview: Feb 14, 2020
Opening Date: Feb 14, 2020
Closing Date: Feb 23, 2020
Running Time: 02:30
Playing @
David H. Koch Theater
20 Lincoln Center, New York, NY 10023
Show Notes: 1 Intermission
Age Guidance: 13
Performance Schedule
REPERTORY PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
VISIT - https://www.nycballet.com/Ballets/S/Swan-Lake-Martins.aspx
Music
- Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky
Choreography
- Peter Martins after Marius Petipa
- Lev Ivanov
- & George Balanchine
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Full-price tickets:
$35.00 - $200.00
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Accessibility
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Box Office
handicapped accessible. -
Parking
Please call 212-874-9021 for reservations if you require a parking space in the “yellow” wheelchair accessible section. The entrance for this section is on Amsterdam Avenue, one hundred feet North of 62nd Street. -
Restroom
handicapped accessible -
Elevator/Escalator
Elevator. -
Entrance
steps leading up to the entrance. Accessible by elevator. -
Water Fountain
handicapped accessible -
Assisted Listening System
Assistive listening devices available for hard-of-hearing patrons. For headsets and loops, see the attendant at the coat check. A major credit card or driver’s license is needed as a security deposit. -
Wheelchair Info
Wheelchair access.
