The ballet company of the National Theatre in Brno is performing Swan Lake in a renewed premiere to mark the centenary of the first performance in the National Theatre in Brno. The production is the work of choreographer and director Robert Strajner. After twenty years the Brno Swan Lake is returning to the repertoire in an entirely new artistic conception. Roman Šolc is taking care of the costumes, the stage sets were designed by the British artist Peter Horne, who already did the same for the ballet The Nutcracker Louskáček. The orchestra is being conducted by Robert Kružík.
This ballet reprise will bring to Brno such recognised dancers as Martina Arduino, prima ballerina of Milan’s La Scala and Maxim Chashchegorov, former principal dancer of the Bavarian State Ballet. During April, as part of the already traditional project Ballet Gala with the participation of the Festival of Russian Culture in the Czech Republic, there will be performances from stars from the Russian theatres. Among those dancing will be Oxana Skorik, principal dancer at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg and Denis Rodkin, principal dancer at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Swan Lake is among the most frequently performed neo-romantic works. Tchaikovsky was inspired by motifs from the original Scandinavian legend of a girl transformed into a swan to write lyrical and melodic music, which became a masterly example of a romantic score. Princess Odette is cursed by Prince Von Rothbart to become a swan and she can only be saved by true love. Prince Siegfried, who promises to be faithful to her however betrays her. The curse thus remains unbroken, even if Odette in the end forgives the unfortunate Siegfried. This piece, which is performed in the traditional choreographic conception of Marius Petip and Lev Ivanov, produced with the Brno ballet company of the famous long-serving ballet master of Milan’s La Scala, Robert Strajner. With its accent on purity of form and style the Brno production follows on from the legacy of Petipa and Ivanov and thanks to Strajner it is also enriched by the western European tradition.
The renewed premiere of the ballet Swan Lake been announced for 19 February 2019 from 7 p.m. in the Janáček Theatre.
Janáček Theatre / Photo from the archives
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