Swan Lake (Bourne)

Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake is a ballet first staged in London in 1995. It is based on the Russian romantic ballet Swan Lake, and uses the same music, by Tchaikovsky. The ballet has proved enormously successful, with touring companies playing to sold-out houses around the World, but it has also been rebuked by critics who resent changes to the standard Russian classic and find some of the new sequences gratuitous.

Synopsis

The plot of the ballet revolves around a young crown prince, his distant mother, and his desire for freedom, represented by a beautiful swan.