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Swan Lake

Swan Lake

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 26, 1966

Runtime

1h 47m

Genres

Drama, Music

User Score

78%

Original Title

Der Schwanensee

Production Companies

ORF, Seven Arts Productions, United Productions of America (UPA), WDR

Director

Truck Branss

Description

Perhaps the most popular ballet video ever released, this version of Tchaikovsky's beloved work stars one of the most famous classical dance partnerships of all time, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. Nureyev choreographed this production for the Vienna State Opera Ballet. Two icons of 20th-century dance in magnificent form. Ballet authority John Lanchbery, former music director of the Sadler's Wells and Royal Ballet companies, as well as of American Ballet Theatre and Australian Ballet, conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's enchanting score.