The Edinburgh Festival Theatre (originally Empire Palace Theatre and later shortened to Empire Theatre) is a performing arts venue located on Nicolson Street in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is used primarily for performances of opera and ballet, large-scale musical events, and touring groups. After its most recent renovation in 1994, it seats 1,915. It is one of the major venues of the annual summer Edinburgh International Festival and is the Edinburgh venue for the Scottish Opera and the Scottish Ballet.
Swan Lake
Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Saturday 1 April 2023
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Important Info
Type: Ballet
City: Edinburgh, Scotland
Starts at: 14:30
Overview
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s treasured production of the world’s best-loved ballet.
The greatest of all romantic ballets returns in “one of the world’s finest productions” (The Observer). BRB revives Peter Wright and Galina Samsova’s glorious Swan Lake – with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia performing Tchaikovsky’s superb music alongside BRB’s spectacular dancers.
Prince Siegfried is out hunting when he discovers a flock of swans. When one of them turns into the beautiful princess Odette, Siegfried is smitten – but Odette explains that she’s under a spell cast by the evil Rothbart, keeping her in swan form from dawn to dusk.
Can Siegfried break the spell?
Find out in this exquisite production of a true classic.
History
Premiere of this production: 04 March 1877, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
Swan Lake is a ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular of all ballets. Swan Lake is the ballet which embodies the soul of Russian art. The combination of brilliant music and choreography creates a special kind of magic; what the great 20th century choreographer George Balanchine had in mind when he famously said, “One should call every ballet Swan Lake because then people would come.”
Venue Info
Edinburgh Festival Theatre - Edinburgh
13-29 Nicolson St
13-29 Nicolson St
Important Info
Type: Ballet
City: Edinburgh, Scotland
Starts at: 14:30