Genre:

Ballet

Release Date:

Oct 2014

Recorded:

2013

Number of Discs:

1

Sound:

2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS

Catalog Number:

OABD7154D

Tchaikovsky: Lac after Swan Lake (Les ballets de monte carlo)

Anja Behrend (Le Cynge Blanc); April Ball (Le Cynge Noir); Stephan Bourgond (Le Prince); Alvaro Prieto (The King); Mimoza Koike (The Queen); Jeroen Verbruggen (Le Confident du Prince); Bernice Coppieters (Sa Majesté la Nuit);

Jean-Christophe Maillot has re-worked Swan Lake with the writer Jean Rouaud (1990 Prix Goncourt winner) to bring a new drama to this pillar of the classic repertoire.

This new adaptation, filmed in a special studio-setting at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, brings a modern-day relevance to the timeless story of Siegfried and Odette. Designed by leading visual artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest, with costumes by Philippe Guillotel, and performed to a specially conceived and mastered soundtrack of Tchaikovsky’s score performed by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, directed by Leonard Slatkin, the production has been hailed as ‘outstanding’ (Le Figaro), while the Jerusalem Post asserted ‘Swan Lake will never be the same after the tempestuous Lac’.

This film of Lac won the top award at the 2103 Golden Prague, as ‘Best Performing Arts Program’, where it was described as ‘A ravishing stage production offering the spectator a thrilling interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece through contemporary dance’.

Reviews

"Swan Lake has never cast such a chill" (Suddeutsche Zeitung)

"A major production, a work where the modern and traditional are combined in a timeless meeting. Here, quality is all-important, and it shows in every movement.’" (ABC)

"For those who love motion in dance, what a delight... the ballet is outstanding - one of those rewrites that dance needs, which innovates and entertains without turning its back on the story... Jean-Christophe Maillot has succeeded in the difficult challenge of reshaping this diamond without removing any of its brightness or its essence" (Le Figaro)