February 20, 1877 the premiere of "Swan Lake" at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. This day can be considered the birth of Russian classical ballet.
The most famous ballet performance in the world, a symbol of Russian ballet and one of the most important achievements of Russian culture, has not lost its greatness for more than 140 years.
But the main component of the permanent grandiose success of ballet remains the brilliant music of the great Russian composer. Full of strength and power, the finest lyricism and the richness of colors, it reminds more than others that, despite all the hardships of life, good and beauty reign in this world.
The plot is based on one of the many versions of a folk tale about a girl turned into evil by a evil force. Evil Genius bewitched beautiful girls and turned them into a flock of swans, who can only return to human form at night. The young prince Siegfried, having met the princess Swans Odette at night on the lake, fell in love with her and was ready to sacrifice her life for her release. He swears to her in eternal love. In this oath a pledge of deliverance of Odette and her friends from the magic spell. But the prince involuntarily changes his word, deceived by the similarity of Odette with Odiley's daughter Zlogen Genius. Odette is doomed to remain forever Swan. But the power of love is stronger than any evil spell of the Evil Genius - she defeats them and connects Odette and Siegfried.
