ROH Live: Swan Lake

Choreography: Liam Scarlett after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov | Music: Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Additional Choreography: Frederick Ashton
Conductor: Martin Georgiev
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Cast: Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball

Live in cinema, classical ballet’s most powerful tale of love, treachery and forgiveness returns to the Royal Opera House stage!

Out hunting, Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans. One among them transforms into the beautiful human Odette and he is immediately enamoured. But Odette is bound by a spell which keeps her captive as a swan during the day. Can Siegfried free her?

Tchaikovsky’s sensational score combines with the evocative imagination of choreographer Liam Scarlett and designer John Macfarlane to heighten the dramatic pathos of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov’s quintessential ballet classic. Swan Lake remains to this day one of the best-loved works in the classical ballet canon.