Swan Lake performed Live at the Royal Ballet - Pro shot!

[jarvisel]

The tutus are very swan-like. Swans are, however, quite dumpy animals, so perhaps the costumes have done and injustice to the dancers.

[MozartGirl1756]

I like how this isn't a "cookie cutter" version of 'Swan Lake'. Bravo to the Royal for giving us something differnt from what we're all used to seeing.

[iamviviennexD]

The orchestra was amazing!

And those cute costumes and smooth graceful movements that corresponds so precisely to the music... It's beautiful!

[andreiitax3]

I remeber seeing this when i was 7! Its so beautiful! It was the very first show i ever saw in new york in my whole life

[MozartGirl1756]

And seriously, the costumes are pretty. Sometimes you don't want to see the same Russian/English tutus over and over again in Swan Lake.

[MozartGirl1756]

OMG!!! The Pas D'Action was STUNNING!!!!!!

[avesraggiana]

@sparkle9fire Part 1: If you really knew me, it would be immediately obvious to you that I'm very aware of how much work goes into creating something like this. Just because someone has an opinion different to yours is no reason for them to have to "bog off". Any designer or creative person who presents his work to be seen by the public runs the risk of not having it approved of. This goes for choreographers, dancers, set designers, painters, sculptors, architects and auto designers.

[eliteballerina]

Odette/Odile has beautiful feet!

[novamico]

Absolutely beautiful! I now set up my mind to visit ROH and watch ballet soon!

[lemaykimbakura]

congratulations to the orquestra. Best version ever and i´ve heard a lot.

[hnorthca]

@lemaykimbakura I couldn't agree more! The orchestra was brilliant Well done

[LilyMoth12]

This is one of the best performances of Swan Lake I have seen in a long time! Beautiful! formosus!

[TheMarcy1817]

I loved this!! beautifully done!!

[natalie2661994]

This is pure perfection! The prince and the Odetta/Odilia dancer and "swans" were AMAZING! I actually cried at the end. This brought me right mood, because I will visit the ballet, Swan lake in april! It is shame, that the ending of that ballet will be happy. This is tragedy... But I'm sooo looking forward. Once again, pure art!

[withchalie1]

forgive my ignorance...I live at the end of the globe..........

[withchalie1]

Pray tell...what year was this production....Is DavdWall...Siegfried...and who...? Odette/Odile..?

[lluvia1194]

@withchalie1 she is marianela nuñez

[tingwananapar]

@lluvia1194 she is amazing!

[RainingSilence]

@withchalie1 Odette is Marianela Nunez, Siegfried is Thiago Soares :)

[itzcoatlrod]

Esta maravillosa obra con tan exelente musica toca lo más sublime de mi ser y me conmueve hasta lo más profundo de mi alma

[mga2890]

That's fantastic!

[ilovefacebookandebay]

So beautiful.But i do think there is something magical missing, and that is the lack of tutus in the white acts.When they allrun around in a circle to leave the stage,the shape of the traditional tutus always makes it look spectacular. The same with the Dance of The Little Swans, you can`t see their legs properly. Pefect performances, great choreography,as always, just go back to the traditional tutus, please.!

[Annuhz]

awesomeness!

[MrsAurellie]

What is the name of music in 30:00 ??

[AmericanLatinaMuslim]

Absolutely amazing! I felt like I was in the audience! thanQ for the upload

[LilyMoth12]

I came for the Tchaikovsky! But this is one of the best performances of Swan Lake I have seen!

[13AnT021]

No bailan la entrada del lago de los cisnes los de la Ópera House? por qué no?

[allavan100]

Sample each track from any recording of Swan Lake and that's how you will find out the exact name of that particular scene.

[allavan100]

Ninaj09 I know it but to be sure may I suggest that you visit AMAZON.com any recordings for Swan Lake then press "sample a

[Ninaj09]

could somedy please tell me the name of piece fron 1:36:23 to 1:38:21 ? I've been looking for it from ages and I just can't find it

[allavan100]

@Ninaj09 - Hi, so for a little piece like this in an amazing score to Swan Lake the composer refers to each piece with the actual speed or style of the piece. The one you are looking for is refered to: Pas de Deux Coda: Allegro molto Vivace - The easiest way to find out is to either use Itunes or Amazon.com to sample each track to the complete recordings of any type of masterpieces such as this one! Enjoy. Allan V.

[cromulentwords]

That lead ballerina is incredible. My back hurts just watching all that damn swan-arching.

[SunshinepicturesxD]

I like this video a lot, it's very well done and all. I think that the only place where the costumes are more beautful in the first act is the swedish royal ballets verision of swan lake, but the costumes in the other acts are beatutiful too. Like this video a lot. I was very dissapointed to see the nutcracker with the royal ballet, but here it was very nice :)

[katey4508]

This is my first time watching ballet, its hard to tell what's going on . . .

[ilovefacebookandebay]

@katey4508 Hello.In the first act, when someone puts both arms above their heads and makes circle movements, this means "dance" in the language of mime. They are inviting everybody to dance.Basically, Ballet, like Opera, has to fill out the music , so they`re not telling a story every minute of every dance, just like in opera, or else the whole thing would be over in an hour or less! So when the villagers are dancing and drinking, they are doing just that, and there`s no story at that point.

[lowbapw123]

Ahh...The feeling I get when I watch this is something else!....

[awesomekatbutterfly]

whooo!! marianela nunez!!! :) love her... :)

[josephinea1]

why are some girls (swans) wearing demi shoes? are they from the royal ballet school?

[yago311]

Who are the dancers from the pas de trois from the 1st act? the three of them are sublime!

[josephinea1]

@yago311 yuhui choe (first soloist), steven mcrae and laura morera (principals)

[josephinea1]

BEAUTIFUL

Odette truly loves the Prince with all her heart so I understand why she wants to die in the end.

[Modelspiceuk]

The music at 1.02.10 is just so majestic and exhilarating. Does anyone know the name of this tune?

[josephinea1]

@Modelspiceuk act 2 coda

[LilyMoth12]

I love Tchaikovsky! I really don't like Swan Lake but gosh his music is beautiful I could watch the ballet just for the music like I am now!

[puppolini]

The best odette/odile I've ever seen. Absolutely fab. Thanks for posting.

[pedrofresnofun]

realy??

only 37.000 views?

[cris2000]

molto bello!!!!

[darlaandme47]

I liked this version but since there seems to be so many other suggested versions, i guess I'll have to look them up and see for myself.

Thanks for posting this.

[jjoulieblue]

thank you! Love it.

[nunet20]

beautiful.....

[KingHalcyon]

The 1895 Mariinsky Revival had much more gusto. I know. I was there.

[LilyMoth12]

@KingHalcyon I was there for the Ballet's premiere! LOL no I am 16 way to young for that! When did this come out 1877? or was it 1876? IDK!

[lkogut9]

They dont dance to the "intro" which is actually called the prelude because it sets the mood of the ballet. Even the nutcracker has a prelude.

[Aleeex09]

im a ballet dancer and have been dancing for 10 years would love to dance in a production like this :D

[BolshoiFan]

Brazilian Thiago Soares is amazing! <3

[icarrus4u]

Don't really care too much for Swan Lake but MARIANELA NUNEZ IS INCREDIBLE! THE WHITE SWAN PAS... OMG!

[MsFakereality]

Bravo!

Marianela Nuñez and Thiago Soares!

[ParanoidAndroidDA]

The dresses look terrible when they're standing still, I do prefer them when they're dancing though. Thank you so much for sharing, this was the first ballet I saw and I love it.

[theawecabinet]

ballet + RFID =

watch?v=s6bYo-C_-sU

[2ffart]

crap, lets jive

[pocketjohnson]

A lot of ballet companies have had new productions in the last 25 years - which are more stylish - and that makes this look a bit long in the tooth.

This is looks like the Ivanov/Petipa on the Drigo score with some deletions from the 1877 version re-added.

Every company has their on take on the production - what the definitive is anyone's guess !

[VanessaMaeFan18]

I LOVE SWAN LAKE!!!! ive seen black swan-a darker yet modern version of this ballet so, that inspired me to see the original. i love it so far

[eltz14]

thanks a lot for sharing!!!!

[ciaomariobello]

A REAL CLASSICAL ORIGINAL SWAN BUT THE REST A VERY STRANGE PRODUCTION. NOT A CLASSICAL BALLET VERSION.

[SDABdance]

THE WHOLE BALLET OF MARIANELA?! Success. 

[saeng02]

Yuhui Choi is sooooo lovely.

[DanielAzrad]

Best piece ever composed.

[SPQRImperator]

@DanielAzrad *Ahem* Beethoven's Ninth would like a word, please.

[Shleoss]

Odile's entrance isn't spectacular, it could have been better, ABT's for example was captivating and bewitching (Gillian Murphy's acting was a winner factor too)

Thank you so much for sharing btw !

[avesraggiana]

@Shleoss The best set Odile's entrance I've ever since is captured on video in the 1982 RB Makarova/Dowell recording. Odile and Rothbart enter for the first and only time, only after all the national character dances. There's a trumpet herald announcing their arrival followed by their party-stopping entrance. Something sinister and evil is about to happen and the audience can sense it. It's a staging that really works, unlike here, where Odile shows up then runs offstage for twenty minutes.

[vimorrison]

Perfect! Thanks for sharing!

[MyBalletboy]

This siegfried has a kinda attitude what bothers

[gussy1964]

thanks so much!!!!!!!!!!!! for u time posting this such jewel, thanks! Brava marianella u r the one!

[cabinthewoods90]

They don't dance the intro of Swan Lake at the Opera House???? o.O why not???????

[iknouluvmi1]

@cabinthewoods90 They do - it's just not shown - they wanna give the orchestra some screen time.

[jameserichardson]

@iknouluvmi1 This production of Swan Lake by the Royal Ballet doesn't have any choreography at the beginning, until, as you see on the recorded DVD, the royal court. (I have been lucky enough to have seen it on more than one occasion at the Royal Opera House.)

[avesraggiana]

@iknouluvmi1 No, they don't. Not in the Royal Ballet production. More "traditional" productions of Swan Lake like this one from the RB keep to musical tradition and leave this section as a musical overture or orchestral introduction to the ballet. What Kevin McKenzie did with this music in ABT's production has been tried a few times over the last several decades with other companies but those danced prologues/overtures have never stuck. It's anyone's guess if ABT's danced prologue will too.

[avesraggiana]

The sets and costumes set this Swan Lake about two to three hundred years later than usual, appearing to shift from the mid-renaissance period to the German Empire period of the 1870s. I can buy it for the first and third acts but the white acts are a costuming disaster hatched in Hell. The swans' tutus make them look frumpy and I haven't seen any ballerina yet who can rock the Odette/Odile tutu, not even the great Marianela Nuñez or Alina Cojocaru. The swan costumes really need to be canned.

[iknouluvmi1]

@avesraggiana If you don't like this version, then you don't have to watch it. As you can see, the majority of the other watchers enjoy it. If you like the other version you're speaking of, then go watch that one.

[avesraggiana]

@iknouluvmi1 I’m sorry if you took offense at my comments. In general I don’t dislike this production at all since I’m a fan of Marianela Nuñez. What I’m not crazy about are some of aspects of the way the story is staged and the costumes for the swans including Odette/Odile. I’ve watched many, many, many SWs both live and on DVD and like many ballet lovers I’ve developed preferences and opinions, and I enjoy stating them amongst a knowledgeable crowd. I’m sorry if you were offended.

[GGbreizh]

@iknouluvmi1 He can, but it is also his right to critizise, and I find that it is a good idea to share his opinion. This is called freedom of speech.

[EvanescenceROCKSS]

@iknouluvmi1 that's ridiculous. A ballet isn't just about the dance obviously, but when I went to see Lopatkina in Swan Lake at the Roayl Opera House theorchestra played music before they started the ballet, before the conductor came on. They could give them screen time during that, instead of when they are dancing on stage. I would have loved to see the Royal Ballet's intro. The Mariinsky don't do one, and the only other I have seen is Zakharova's in La Scala, which was wonderful.

[emmsteemmastewart]

@cabinthewoods90 they don't in this production...i don't think they ever have before, i may be wrong but dancing through the intro is relatively new and this production wanted be very traditional i think....

[TheVaughan5]

@cabinthewoods90 Because despite the somewhat unusual sets this production like all previous Royal Ballet productions of Swan Lake follows the original Ivanov/Petipa choreography. The introduction is the equivalent of an overture in an opera.

[lkogut9]

@cabinthewoods90 They dont dance to the "intro" which is actually called the prelude because it sets the mood for the ballet. Even the nutcracker has a prelude. Even most operas have a prelude.

[ilovefacebookandebay]

@cabinthewoods90 No-one dances in the intro to Swan Lake.It`s just the introduction, setting the scene, before the curtain rises on the villagers.

[karamelme]

Marianela was pure elegance and an actress with such fire in her quality of technicality and sensability of music. it was just so tasetful and seasoned to watch from the White Swan to the Black Swan.

[belu1991]

Marianela rules!

[Arpiri]

thanks a lot! I love this.

[LaurenStar111]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!! I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS FOR AGES!!!!! now i dont have to pay £24.99 for it!

[iknouluvmi1]

@LaurenStar111 Haha no problem :-)

[tutus4life]

AMAZING neopolitan, holy cow

[TheJaynee7]

so beautiful, I love the way she dances, so gracious!

Good quality as wel!

[joan2002281]

讚啦~!!!^^