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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The original Swan Lake dates back to the late 1800s and is ... into a swan after being cursed by the evil sorcerer Baron von Rothbart. "When the kingdom’s eligible royal, Prince Siegfried ...

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.

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 ...