Swan Lake

1. A ballet by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in which a prince fights for the love of the Swan Queen. Swan Lake is one of the most famous ballets.

Example Sentences

At the grand end of the scale, Miami City Ballet brought its recent production of “Swan Lake” to Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa — beginning a run of varied versions of Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet this summer.

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Miami City Ballet has attracted attention for mounting what is being called a historically informed “Swan Lake” by the noted Bolshoi-trained choreographer Alexei Ratmansky.

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Historically informed performance, or HIP, is a loaded term, and “Swan Lake” is a loaded ballet.

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Ratmansky’s reconstructed “Swan Lake” does much the opposite with modern instruments and old-fashioned ballet, and it got off to a disorienting start Sunday night.

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There is no definitive version of “Swan Lake.”

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