The Ugly Duckling and the Lake of Swans


The Ugly Duckling and the Lake of Swans Ballet on Edward Grieg's music Librettists, directors and choreographers Nataliya Kasatkina, Vladimir Vasilyov Conductor Elizaveta Dvorkina Video Designer Muza Sokolova The Orchestra of the Novaya Opera Theatre Conductor Valery Kritskov Recommended for 6+	The Kasatkina and Vasilyov State Academic Classical Ballet Theatre (Moscow Classical Ballet) Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasilyov’s new ballet production, The Legend of the Swan Lake and the Ugly Duckling, to Grieg’s music, based on Andersen’s fairy-tale, was premiered in the State Kremlin Palace on 25 March 2016 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Classical Ballet Theatre. Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasilyov: “This story is about living among people when you are different. There is a reason why the swan lake is mentioned in the title: like in Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece of the same name it is an image of a faraway beautiful dream. We sought to fill the performance with various meanings to make it interesting for the family audience”.