Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake ****
Zurich Ballet, 3rd June 2018
Zurich’s charming opera house lies within a stone’s throw of the lake. During intervals on balmy summer evenings such as this, audience members wander lakeside, where swans glide serenely. It’s the perfect house in which to see Swan Lake and Ballett Zürich boasts a gem: Alexei Ratmansky’s rigorous reconstruction of the 1895 Mariinsky production in St Petersburg by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, the version which established Tchaikovsky’s ballet as a classic. With an exquisitely danced Odette/Odile by Viktorina Kapitonova, who premiered Ratmansky’s version two seasons ago, I was floating in swan heaven.
Viktorina Kapitonova (Odette)
© Carlos Quezada
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