A force to be reckoned with: the corps de ballet in the Royal Ballet's latest production of 'Swan Lake'photo: Bill Cooper On Thursday the Barbican, celebrating its 40th anniversary with a performance ...

At least the score, such as it is here, sounds plangent and pliant under veteran ballet conductor Boris Gruzin. Matching it for magical suppleness on the first night was the peerless performance of ...

Program: Johannes Brahms: “Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80”; Claude Debussy: “Première Rhapsodie”; Henri Tomasi: “Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra ...

With four weeks down and two to go in New York City Ballet’s winter season, the run is now dominated by Peter Martins’s two-act “Swan Lake,” to Tchaikovsky’s enduring 1875-76[ score, which continues ...

Beautiful clarinet music filled the Citizens Opera House on opening night of Boston Ballet’s “Swan Lake,” welcoming patrons back to the story just three years after the ballet was last performed by ...

Somewhere over the last 145 years, there was a collective, pop-cultural agreement that Swan Lake is ballet. The Nutcracker is ballet, too, but it’s Christmas ballet and is restrained by strict ...

The ballet score came into its own during the first half of the 20th Century as such composers as Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, Darius Milhaud and Aaron Copland wrote some of their greatest music in ...

Drawing from the original 1877 ballet by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky, which has a happy ending (unlike the more familiar, tragic 1893 version), Lisbeth Zwerger retells and illustrates Swan Lake, trans. by ...