Princess Ojeta has an unfortunate encounter with a demon. The devil wants to marry her and is refused, so he uses magic to turn the princess and her female companion all into swans.? One day a princess told her son, Prince Siegfried, that she would have to choose a maiden to be his fiancée tomorrow and invited her to their festival. The prince was at a loss for words.
The prince went to Swan Lake. At that moment the swans suddenly turned into a group of maidens, and the fairest of the swans confided in the prince what had happened to them. It turned out that that beautiful swan was the princess who was imprisoned by magic. The devil used magic to turn her and her maids into swans, and only at night, on the shore of the lake, could they be restored to human form. There is only one way to undo the sorcery, and that is the faithful love of a young man.
The prince fell in love with the date Ojeta and showed her his affection. Their conversation was overheard by the devil. At the holiday ball, the Devil walks into the hall with his daughter, Augilia, a replica of Ojeta, whose purpose is to confuse the prince. The prince thinks that Augilia is Ojeta and therefore declares his marriage to her. The Devil laughed maniacally and took Augeria away.
Then the prince realizes that it is a trap and runs towards Swan Lake in despair. Knowing the truth, Ojeta is determined not to forgive the prince again. When the Devil King ecstatically reveals his hideous, murderous face, the Devil is killed by the Prince with the help of Ojeta and the flock of geese. From then on witchcraft disappears. Ojeta and the maids of honor were restored to human form. Then Princess Ojeta and Prince Siegfried were happily united.
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Tchaikovsky wrote the book "Tchaikovsky". p>Tchaikovsky wrote Swan Lake in 1875, when ballet music was still subordinate to ballet, and ballet music composers were not highly regarded in the European music world. Tchaikovsky was already enjoying a certain reputation in the Russian music world, but he didn't care about that. When the Moscow State Theater extended an invitation to Tchaikovsky to write a piece of music for a dance drama, Tchaikovsky immediately agreed.
The Bolshoi did not have a definite subject for the composition, and Tchaikovsky, remembering that he had written a small ballet, "Swan Lake," a few years earlier, suggested it to the theater.
Composing for the first time for a dance drama, he devoted a lot of effort to this work, reading a lot of general scores and going to the theater to see the play in order to learn all kinds of details about the dance drama.
The official premiere of Swan Lake was held in February 1877 at the State Theater in Moscow. The audience's response was lukewarm.
Tchaikovsky, who seems to have been born with a melancholic introversion in his character, felt sorry for himself, believing that his music was not written to a high enough standard, and never touched Swan Lake again until he died. Later, the famous St. Petersburg dance choreographer, the Frenchman Petipa inadvertently read the original manuscript of the music of "Swan Lake", ecstatic, he felt that he had found another play to use his artistic talent.
In 1895, the full production of Swan Lake was staged in St. Petersburg to unprecedented success. The conductor of the orchestra, Drigo, was extremely serious about his art, insisting on keeping the original score, and not allowing a single note to be inserted into it, so that the music of Swan Lake that we hear today does not have a doggerel sound.
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