Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake choreographed by Nureyev, Final Scene

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Rudolf Nureyev - Swan Lake
Act IV

Agnès Letestu: Odette
José Martinez: Siegfried
Karl Paquette: Wolfgang

Rudolf Nureyev: Choreographer, Stage director
The Premiers Danseurs du Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris
Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris
Paris Opera Orchestra
Vello Pähn: Music director

Ballet recorded at Opéra national de Paris (Paris, France), in 2006.

© Opéra national de Paris – François Roussillon et associés

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[kirstietp]

Holy carp, I'm so stoked to see this clip. When I was 15 I was a supernumerary in Paris Opera Ballet's Swan Lake w/ Nureyev and Sylvie Guillem. I was on the wire flying up after Odette "disappears" upstage. I got to wear the most amazingly beautiful costume. I have always wondered what it looked like from the audience. Gossebumps.

[glassy_rose]

Don't you hate it when you're transforming into a swan and your bf is doing pirouettes with the guy that cursed you

Lol joking, stunning performance! Hope I get the chance to see this ballet live, it's so powerful!

[juchen]

This is art, the highlight of human beings.

[meowmaster]

Oh how I wish I could solve my conflicts by dancing a perfectly choreographed ballet

[yujuti]

I wish the dancers would have had more emotions. They danced beautifully but they didn’t seem to be really into their character. Odette doesn’t seem sad, the prince doesn’t seem desperate, and the wizard didn’t seem happy.

[olibssb]

I‘m crying. Thank you for sharing this beautiful performance. 🙏

[medinnaplays]

I love this ending...just like life itself....not always has to be a happy ending 😞

[psicpta]

Just came here after watching the masterpiece of Black Swan, 2010, which built a perspective behind the eyes of the ballerina. Sublime!

[nannaleifa]

Wow, the choreography didn't match the scene at all. The dance at the beginning look like 3 friends frolicking together than an emotional final fight with the villain.

I don't know if this was intended or not but the choreography made it seems Siegfried and Rothbart were a lot more intimate than Odette to Siegfried. Not that I minded much, but feels more homoerotic than usual play.

[sharonboscacci]

Everybody loves to compere the famous dancers with the beautiful music. The beautiful music came first.

I like the Barbie movie ending better😂😂😂😭

[thaisbarrouin]

This is a perfect piece of art! Iam never tired of seeing it again nas

[Nao-uymj]

I don't choreography and the dancer's expressions seemed so mechanical, especially compared to Tchaikovsky's expressive and romantic score

[miralazic]

🌿Labudovo Delo...🌿.svih vremena, proslih i buducih....Rudolf Nureyev King forever!!!🕊️🏆🕊️✨✨🥇✨✨🌏✨✨🦜🦜✨✨🌿

[anns]

Even Twilight puts more emotion in their performances...

[blankajindrich]

Lots of comments about expression. Someone is pointing out that the emotions are shown through dance and not facial expression. To be able project close ups in ballet or opera is quite a new thing. The technology was not available 200 years ago. Anyone who was not sitting in front row, had to rely on the body expression and it is still true now if you go to see ballet or opera in the theater ( now after covid).

[giorgimatcharashvili]

Prince Siegfried: I want to kill you! fight me!
Rothbart: Fight is good, but what about dance, bro?
Prince Siegfried: yea! dance is better.

[oykuyank]

Swan lake and complete Russian music is my favorite thing on earth, this is not what Tchaikovsky intended to do.

[АндрейХаритонов-бжи]

Чайковский - великий Русский композитор на всё времена.

[dlefil]

A great ballet with a choreography by one of the best dancers! ☺