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 ...

This tone poem by Sibelius from 1895 ... string writing – there are up to seventeen separate string parts – it has been described as 'Swan Lake meets Parsifal'. It very nearly inspired Walt Disney, ...

Impossibly refined in every particular, Smirnova is pure poetry as OdetteWhen you're used to ... rather than three parts: the black swan scene flows straight into the final "lake" scene with a ...