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Victor Fedotov 費多托夫, Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra 馬林斯基劇院交響樂團

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Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is perhaps the most famous among all Russian ballets. For more than 100 years it does not leave the stage. It became a symbol of the Russian classical ballet, one of its highest achievements. It was composed in 1875-76 by a comission of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre and first performed on February 20th, 1877 without much success. The choreographer, Julien Reisinger, couldn't estimate Tchaikovsky's ingenious music, and his attitude was quite mediocre.
The real success came to "The Swan Lake" in 1895, two years after Tchaikovsky's death. The ballet was staged in the Mariin-sky Theatre in St. Petersburg. The choreographers were Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (who staged the "swan scenes"). The ballet's history is rather intricate one. It was to undergo many changes, and lots of different versions were made until it became the popular "Swan Lake" which is known today. In 1950, a great dancer and choreographer Konstantin Sergeyev staged a new version in Mariinsky Theatre that be-came famous all over the world.
Victor Fedotov conducted the performances of "The Swan Lake" with many outstanding dancers, among them - Alla Sizo-va, Natalia Makarova, Yuri Solovjov, Anas-tasia Volochkova, Rudolf Nuriev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Uliana Lopatkina and many others. He also directed the performance of the first of early versions of the ballet at the Zemper Opera in Dresden (in this version, the story has a tragic end: the waters of the lake rise and swallow Prince Siegfried and Odette).
Victor Fedotov was the art director of "The Swan Lake" in Covent Garden in Lon-don, in the Royal Opera in Sweden, in the New Theatre in Tokyo where this ballet is especially popular. He took part in numerous TV recordings of "The Swan Lake" (one of them was made by Phillips) and a film (1968).

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