What can be better that a magic fairy-tale – a fairy-tale with a beautiful romantic story in its essence, a story that would embed the good and the evil, the love and the hatred, the tears, the caress, the happiness and the death. All that is what’s to be found in the legendary ballet based on Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s music “The Lake of the Swans”. For over years it’s been gathering full theaters being admired by vast audiences.
Even up to now it’s hard to say that there is an ‘original’ version of the ballet. The ballet was staged many times since the 1877 premiere and every time something was changed about it, whether in the music score, or costumes, or decor, or dance movements. Tchaikovsky himself was not happy at all about the debut performance of his work at the stage, he liked almost nothing about it calling the whole thing poor. But the ballet enjoys great success now, how come? The version staged at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow was revived in 1895 for the Imperial Ballet and the score was thoroughly revised Riccardo Drigo. The choreography was improved along with costumes. That version, both musically and artistically, is now considered a basic starting point for everyone who would consider staging his/her own interpretation of the famous ballet – like this arrangement for oboe trio, for instance. A memorable dance of the fragile devoted creatures with a deep innocent purport.
