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List of Partners vendors. Aaron Green. Music Expert. Aaron M. Green is an expert on classical music and music history, with more than 10 years of both solo and ensemble performance experience. As dawn breaks. Odette and her friends withdraw into the ruins, and reappear on the lake as swans.
Act III. In the castle ballroom, Wolfgang orders the servants to admit the guests, and they are followed by the Prince's mother, Siegfried and their retinue of pages and dwarves, who perform a dance. The Master of Ceremonies signals the revels to commence, and new guests are announced, including an old count with his wife and daughter, who begins to dance with one of the knights. Six eligible princesses arrive with their parents, and each daughter dances for Siegfried.
After several such entrances, the Siegfried's mother instructs her son to make a choice, but he cannot. Annoyed, she calls Wolfgang to talk some sense into him. Fanfares sound anew, and Baron von Rothbart enters with Odile. Siegfried is struck by Odile's likeness to Odette.
He even asks Benno to affirm her resemblance to Odette, but his friend sees none. Siegfried delightedly welcomes Odile, and the ball recommences. Dances follow for the visiting Princesses, a Pas de deux for Siegfried and Odile, and dancers from many nations. The Prince's mother is delighted that Siegfried is taken with Odile. He announces that he will marry her, and kisses Odile's hand.
The Prince's mother and von Rothbart join their hands. The scene then darkens, and an owl cries out, as von Rothbart is revealed as a demon. Odette appears helplessly at a window as white swan, while Odile laughs loudly. Siegfried is horrified, and flings away the hand of his newly betrothed. Clutching his breast, he rushes out of the castle. Act IV. Back at the lakeside clearing, the Swan maidens await Odette by the lake, unable to understand where their queen has gone.
The young swans dance while they wait. Odette eventually returns in despair and tells the others that she has been betrayed, and no hope remains. Against their advice, Odette lingers to spend one last moment with Siegfried, who rushes in. As a storm rises, Siegfried begs Odette's forgiveness, but she feels powerless to forgive him, and she tries to run away towards the ruins. The Prince catches up with her, grasps her hand and desperately exclaims that she will remain with him forever. Then he takes the crown from her head and throws it into the stormy lake.
An owl flies screeching overhead, holding Odette's crown in its claws. Odette dies in the Prince's arms. The sad last song of the swan is heard. Both lovers are engulfed by the overflowing lake. As the waters subside, swans are seen gliding across the calm surface of the lake.
The ballet was commissioned from Tchaikovsky by the Directorate of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow during the spring of Nikolay Kashkin [6] recalled that the composer was persuaded to write a ballet on a mythical subject from the time of medieval knights, but there is very little reliable information on the process of composition.
Kashkin insisted that the composer began to work on the ballet in the spring and that the first act "was already written by the end of the conservatory examinations", although he mistakenly dates this to the spring of by which time the ballet had been completely orchestrated.
In this same letter he mentions that he is tired, adding: "After my exertions of the last few days, I really intend to take a break before returning to Moscow. I don't want to think about music this coming term" [7]. I worked rather diligently and, apart from the symphony , I wrote in outline two acts of a ballet.
I took this work on partly for the money, which I need, and partly because I have long wanted to try my hand at writing this type of music" [8].
It is not possible to ascertain exactly when the sketches were completed and the instrumentation was begun.
On the fair copy of the manuscript, after Act I, No. Moscow ". Evidently at this point the rough sketches had already been completed, and the composer had embarked on the instrumentation of the ballet.
Besides composing Lake of the Swans , Tchaikovsky had to attend to a number of other tasks. Besides a ballet, which I am rushing to finish as soon as possible so that I can start on an opera, I have a mass of proofs and—worst of all—a commitment to write some musical articles" [10]. In order to do the job properly, I need two weeks away from here otherwise nothing will get done" [13].
In the same letter he reported that he was going to see Konstantin Shilovsky at Glebovo. I want to get away from all the bustle and clamour of the festivities in Moscow , and to work properly on the ballet, which has to be finished as soon as possible.
Yesterday in the hall of the Theatrical School there was a rehearsal of a few numbers from the first act of this ballet". And below he added: "The whole theatre was delighted with my music" [14]. The author's date at the end of the manuscript reads: "The End!!! Glebovo 10 April ". Evidently the full score of Act I was in the hands of the theatre before Tchaikovsky left on his foreign travels.
In a report from the inspector of music, Yury Gerber, to the Directorate of the Moscow Theatres, we read: "I have the honour of informing the Directorate that on this day I received from Mr Tchaikovsky the remaining 3 acts of the ballet Swan Lake— Mr Tchaikovsky asked me to petition the Directorate for payment of the balance of his fee".
After finishing the ballet, Tchaikovsky was asked to write two supplementary numbers. The first of these pieces is described on the manuscript score as: "Russian Dance for the third act of Lake of the Swans for Madame. Karpakova ". This dance was performed by the principal ballerina in all productions of the ballet during the composer's lifetime. The origins of this Pas de deux are described in Pavel Pchelnikov 's recollections of Tchaikovsky [16]. Von Rothbart escapes and Odette runs away followed by the prince.
The remaining swan maidens appear and dance their celebrated waltz. At its end, Siegfried returns, seeking Odette. When she appears, they express their tragic love in an adagio pas de deux. Dawn begins to break and the pale light tells the maidens that they must again change back into swans.
Left alone with her beloved, Odette bids him a tender farewell and reluctantly reassumes her enchanted form. The guests assemble for the great ball in which Prince Siegfried is to find his bride. At the end of the dance, he informs his mother that he cannot marry any of them.
At this moment trumpets sound the arrival of two uninvited guests. They are Von Rothbart and his daughter Odile, whom he has transformed into a semblance of Odette. Siegfried is enraptured thinking he has found Odette again. Siegfried and the beguiling Odile begin the exultant Black Swan pas de deux. As the duet reaches its brilliant climax, the real Odette appears as a vision, but Von Rothbart spellbinds the court and so deludes the prince.
At the conclusion of their dance, Siegfried declares his love for Odile and his desire to marry her. Immediately the prince's mother expresses her approval, but Von Rothbart demands that the young man swear a formal oath.
The prince innocently complies, and when he has done so, Von Rothbart and Odile mockingly reveal their true identities. Siegfried now sees the vision of the weeping Odette and understands his mistake. The swans are grieving for their queen.
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