Such a frank display of power leavened with poetry accounts for much of “Swan Lake’s” enduring appeal. Yet the signature feature of the Washington Ballet’s poignant, visually striking ...

Swan Lake is probably the most exceptional phenomenon in all classical ballet literature. With its nonpareil beauty, dreamy poetry, seductive magic and romantic imagery, it braids the fairy tale ...

English National Ballet has long danced the popular classics, and with its in-the-round Swan Lake it continues in spectacular ... more of a pageant than a poem. At last night’s opening night ...

For a show often considered the ballet of all ballets, Swan Lake appears to be fairly simple ... which itself was inspired by a Tennyson poem of the same name, about an Arthurian maiden who ...

By Zuzanna Lachendro When Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake debuted at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in 1877, it was considered a failure. Almost 150 years later, it has become the ballet that epitomises ...