Toronto dance-ballet: Bolshoi Ballet presents Swan Lake

Bolshoi Ballet presents Swan Lake in Toronto on 15 May,2012 May 15-19, 2012 The Bolshoi Ballet returns to Toronto with the most revered of classical ballets, SWAN LAKE, a perennial dance favourite about sorcery and royalty. Based on Russian folk tales, SWAN LAKE, which the Bolshoi premiered in 1877, is the haunting story of Odette, a beautiful maiden turned swan by an evil sorcerer. A tragic love story, Odette?s romance with Prince Siegfried is doomed by a curse which leaves him to wander endlessly on the empty banks of the lake of his dreams. Today, the Bolshoi Ballet remains one of the world?s most famous ballet companies, even Lady Gaga is a fan, and has performed with them! www.bolshoi.ru/en/ For more information please visit: http://www.sonycentre.ca/Events/Event-Detail.aspx?evtID=479 Click here to see more events similar to "Bolshoi Ballet presents Swan Lake"

Published on Wed, 16 May 2012 09:46:36 -0700 by Globe and Mail

Bolshoi Ballet performers in "Swan Lake" Indeed, on the company's first trip to Toronto since 1979, we see a new generation of dancers impeccably trained in the Bolshoi tradition. And showing off that training in Swan Lake, that sine qua non of classical ballet. When the Kirov came through ...

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