Friday 13 december at 20:00

Spectacle : Le Lac des Cygnes

Dance
Classical music
Performance
Cultural

Zénith de Pau allée Suzanne Bacarisse 64000 Pau

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Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) came up with the idea for Swan Lake while staging a show using wood-carved swans for his nieces at his Ukrainian estate of Kamenka. Drawing on ancient Nordic legends, Tchaikovsky composed this great ?white ballet? between 1875 and 1879, in which young girls are transformed into swans by a fearsome curse. This gentle, melancholy work has long been misunderstood. It was Marius Petipa, a ballet master and choreographer born in Marseille before moving to Russia, who gave...