Beautiful clarinet music filled the Citizens Opera House on opening night of Boston Ballet’s “Swan Lake,” welcoming ... the character of Von Rothbart, danced by Boston Ballet principal ...

The original Swan Lake dates back to the late 1800s and is based on a German fairy tale, which tells the story of Prince ...

Amid a trade war, the National Ballet of Canada’s patriotic restaging of the Russian classic brought audiences to their feet.

Instead, he went into the forest, where he fell in love with Odette, a beautiful princess, by a lake. Odette was cursed by evil sorcerer Von Rothbart, who made her transform into a swan every day ...

Swan Lake is one of the most beloved ballets and ... He is also easily fooled, and when the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart (Arian Molina Soca) sees that Odette, the white swan might leave the fold ...

Tchaikovsky’s popular 1870s Swan Lake is a prime example. Turned into a white swan by Baron Von Rothbart, Odette perishes in ...

Swan Lake as we know it dates to the 1895 production ... Odette and the other swan maidens were transformed by the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart, and their only hope for breaking the curse is a ...

who promises his love to swan maiden Odette, only to be tricked by magician Von Rothbart. The stars include Richard Winsor, Dominic North, Nina Goldman, Madelaine Brennan, Steve Kirkham and Joseph ...

Swan Lake follows the life of Princess Odette, who is cursed by the cunning Baron Von Rothbart and is transformed into a swan, condemned to the lakeside. The spell is breakable only by true love.

“Swan Lake,” composed by legend Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and originally choreographed by Julius Reisinger, tells the story of ...

killing the prince and leaving Odette to endure Rothbart’s control for all eternity. Kain’s bejewelled flourish on Swan Lake only heightens the story’s tragic, timeless appeal. Czech ...

But just as dark forces lurk beyond Swan Lake’s palace walls, ill fortune has ensnared this production. (The villain of the piece, an evil sorcerer named Rothbart, only wishes he had the power ...