135 years after its world premiere by Bolshoi!
Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, May 15-19, 2012
The world-renowned Russian ballet company, Bolshoi Ballet, marks its return to Toronto with the most revered of classical ballets, SWAN LAKE, a production that celebrated its world premiere by the same company on March 4, 1877. Now in its 236th season, Bolshoi Ballet presents SWAN LAKE at the Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, Tuesday, May 15 – Saturday, May 19, 2012 with original revival choreography by Marius Petipa as composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Based on Russian folk tales, SWAN LAKE is a perennial dance favourite that tells a haunting story of love, sorcery, and royalty gone awry. In this tragic love story, Prince Siegfried has set his eyes on an enchanting maiden named Odette, who, unbeknownst to Siegfried, was turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer toying with Siegfried’s fidelity for his true love.
Founded in 1776, the Bolshoi Ballet is among the world’s oldest ballet companies. Achieving worldwide acclaim in the early 20th century when Moscow became the capital of Soviet Russia, the company’s origins can be traced to 1773 with the creation of a dance school for a Moscow orphanage. Originally performing in privately owned venues, the school’s employers, Prince Pyotr Urusov and English theatrical entrepreneur Michael Maddox, acquired the Petrovsky Theatre which was later rebuilt as today’s Bolshoi Theatre.
Bolshoi Ballet is distinguished for its vibrant and bold style that blends technique and athleticism with expressiveness and dramatic intensity. It was this famed style that led the company to a 2009 performance with Lady Gaga at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s 30th Anniversary gala.
Bolshoi Ballet presents SWAN LAKE
Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, 1 Front Street East, Toronto
Tuesday, May 15 – Thursday, May 16 @ 7:30pm
Friday, May 18 & Saturday, May 19 @ 8pm
Saturday, May 19 @ 2pm
Regular prices range from $71 – $255, plus applicable taxes and service charges,
and can be purchased in person at the Sony Centre box office,
over the phone at 1-855-872-SONY (7669) or online at www.sonycentre.ca
Groups of 8 or more can save with THE Group Tix Company
Call 647.438.5559,1.866.447.7849 or visit www.thegrouptixcompany.com
To get a sense of the amount of work and effort the Bolshoi Ballet puts into their performances take a look at this short video of one of their classical ballets in Moscow “Der Rosenkavalier” (The Knight of the Rose) by Richard Strauss.
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