Swan Lake, or Song (loosely based on Swan Lake and Anton Chekhov’s one-act Swan Song)

Event realized as part of the Dance Meeting 2023

BALLET OF ROME, Artistic Direction Francesca Magnini, with the participation of
Carola Puddu as the Black Swan and Roberta De Simone in the role of the White Swan

Choreography and direction Fabrizio Monteverde
Music P.I. Tchaikovsky

Among the suggestions of a cruel love story and the symbols of an art that dominates life, Fabrizio Monteverde reinvents the most famous of the classical repertoire ballets to music by P. I. Tchaikovsky, guaranteeing that unique choreographic and directorial originality that has always characterizes creations and success. A ballet masterpiece, a perfect synthesis of academic and nocturnal romantic choreography, formal clarity and perturbing psychoanalytic symbologies, Swan Lake is a fairy tale with no happy ending in which the two protagonist lovers, Siegfried and Odette, pay with their lives for the passion that binds them. One of those “tales of love in which one believes in youth” would have said Anton Chekhov, writing in the one-act Swan Song (1887) of an actor now old and sick who poignantly retraces the thousand roles of a long career. Declared intellectual derivation from the Russian writer, the Lake of Monteverde finds its natural dramatic fulfillment in Il Canto and in a poignant journey of illusions and memory brings to the stage a group of “elderly” dancers who, between the fatigues of a vanished youth and the neurotic search for a happy ending, retrace the acts of a further, “inevitable” Lake.

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