Tchaikovsky’s first ballet is the most beloved classical piece in ballet literature: while the hardships of love between a prince forced into marriage and a maiden enchanted into the form of a swan is one of the most charming Russian romantic fairy tales, the piece nevertheless failed at its original premiere in 1877. The same female ballet dancer portrays both Odette – the pure, innocent white swan– and Odile – the seductive, manipulative black swan in the Hungarian National Ballet’s production.
Credits:
Choreography after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov: Rudi van Dantzig
Choreography of folk dances: Toer van Schayk
Conductor: Balázs Kocsár
Cast:
- Odette /Odile: Tatiana Melnik
- Siegfried: Gergely Leblanc
- Rothbart: Mikalai Radziush
- Alexander: Dmitry Diachkov
- Pas de trois girls: Diana Kosyreva / Ellina Pokhodnykh
- Big Swan 1: Ellina Pokhodnykh
- Big Swan 2: Kristina Starostina
- Little Swan 1: Nadezhda Sorokina
- Little Swan 2: Yuka Asai
- Little Swan 3: Olga Chernakova
- Little Swan 4: Lili Felméry
- Bride 1: Nika Crnić
- Bride 2: Ágnes Kelemen
- Bride 3: Emi Uehara
- Bride 4: Angela Mingardo
- Bride 5: Ellina Pokhodnykh
- Bride 6: Adema Omarova
- Spanish girl 1: Lea Földi
- Spanish girl 2: Anastasiia Konstantinova
- Spanish girl 3: Kristina Starostina
- Spanish boy 1: Attila Szakács
- Spanish boy 2: Takaaki Okajima
- Pas de six girl solo: Sofia Ivanova-Skoblikova
- Pas de six boy solo: Ievgen Lagunov
- Pas de six girl 1: Yourim Lee
- Pas de six girl 2: Miyu Takamori
- Pas de six boy 1: Gaetano Cottonaro
- Pas de six boy 2: Ryosuke Morimoto
- Neapolitan girl 1: Artemisz Bakó-Pisla
- Neapolitan girl 2: Kateryna Tarasova
- Neapolitan girl 3: Yuka Asai
- Neapolitan boy 1: Franceso Sardella
- Neapolitan boy 2: Kristóf Morvai
- Neapolitan boy 3: Yuya Takahashi
- Hungarian girl solo: Liudmila Mizinova
- Hungarian boy solo: Miklós Dávid Kerényi