Sunday, April 11, 2010
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre revisits classic 'Swan Lake'
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre will ring down the curtain on its 40th anniversary season with performances of the ultra-romantic and ultra-popular 'Swan Lake.' It has a synergy of dance with music that is both emotionally intense and exhilarating."
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When I saw The Nutscracker, I was impressed with the beauty of ballet. That was the first time to see Ballet. Ballet is performed to the music and only with gestures and no lines. That is a little bit frustrating in a good sense.
The disappointment was PBT cannot help but doing a few performances with recorded music. I wish they could afford to have a real orchestra.
This time, they have a real orchestra. I have not seen this piece but listened to these familiar, beautiful pieces of music many times. I hope this production will be successful and look forward to seeing the show.
I wasn't aware that they have used recorded music in the past, but i too am glad that they sprung for the orchestra to do Tchaikovsky justice. Its a beautiful ballet that really needs live music. I wonder if the ballet artistic director actually changed the ending to have them fly off at the end or if that was just a thought of his.
My mom has constantly reminded me that Swan Lake is her favorite ballet. I did the whole "go to the Nutcracker at Christmastime" thing a few times when I was little, but she always told me that Swan Lake was a ballet that she would never forget. With that being instilled in my brain from such a young age, it has always been a ballet I've longed to see. I think, as Hide said, it is a shame that PBT can't always use a live orchestra. It adds to the beauty of the piece, and really helps the final product come together with a polish that a recording cannot offer.
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