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| The classic comes alive, Swan Lake. |
THE Classic Swan
Lake ballet is making a comeback at the 19th Season of
Ballet Manila this Nov 15 and 16 at the Aliw Theater at Pasay City.
This will showcase the choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
and music by Peter Tchaikovsky. Featuring are Maxim Chaschegorov and
Katherina Markowskaja of Bavarian State Ballet for the Gala shows.
Prima Ballerina Lisa
Macuja-Elizalde who serve as the Artistic Director of Ballet Manila
told us during our sit down interview that Swan Lake is her most
performed ballet ever, and serve as the benchmark for all ballet
company worldwide, thus it is one of the most challenging act to do
as ballerina for a career,
“One of my most
performed classical ballet aside from Nut cracker and Don Quixote,
Swan Lake is
ballerina’s ballet, the leading ballerina can make or break the
show” Macuja Said.
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| The Swan's on the lake. |
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| The Swan's and the Prince. |
Swan Lake has
roughly estimate of 50 to 60 in total performances by Ballet Manila
alone, and the difference for this year’s performances are the new
set of costumes for Act 1 scene, the sets also did some renovation
and the ending part is been change a little bit. But Macuja
emphasized that the choreography and the music are all the same.
“it’s one of the most well-known ballet, even the common
public well know what’s Swan Lake even just watching the movie
black swan or Barbie’s swan lake Cartoons,
definitely the most popular classical ballet.” Elizalde Added.
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| Prima Ballerina Lisa Macuja-Elizalde. |
Swan Lake foretells
the story of Prince Siegfried who falls in with Odette that is cursed
to being a swan at night. Evil Rothbart tricked the Prince to fall in
love for Odile, the Black Swan. But the Prince realizes his mistakes
and ask for Odettes forgiveness, and the lovers decide to jump into
the lake to break the spell. The villains vanish while the lovers
ascend to heavens above Swan Lake.
BM finest Ballerina
Mylene Aggabao, Dawna Mangahas and Abigail Oliverio takes the
challenging dual role of Odette and Odile.
Macuja-Elizalde told
us that it took one month for Ballet Manila to prepare for this show,
it’s been performed wayback then that’s why it’s easy for them
to restage it all over again. But what’s challenge her is the
casting issue in which BM has more boys in the company rather than
girls, all her girls are vital for its part and losing one of them
due to unavailability like sickness is really a major issue that she
need to attend to right away. And being a world renowned Prima
Ballerina she assures us that this kind of issues is taken care of
immediately without suffering the standard that she sets for any
production of BM.
Swan Lakes scheduled
are as follows, Nov 15 Saturday at 11am and 7:30 (Gala) in the
evening. Nov 16 at 11am and 3 in the afternoon. For tickets and
other inquiries you may contact Ballet Manila at Tel.Nos 525-5967 or
400-0292 via email at info@balletmanila.com.ph
website is www.balletmanila.com.ph
or Ticketworld at Tel Nos. 891-9999 or www.ticketworld.com.ph
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This year’s Swan
Lake is presented by the Manila Broadcasting Company and sponsored by
Aliw Theater and Star City, along with ACS Manufacturing Corporation
(Pride and Shield Bath Soap), First United Travel, BPI Express
Credit, Island Rose, Ralph’s Wines and Spirits, Krispy Kreme, Hen
Lin, Papa John’s Pizza and Crunchbelly by Carlos Kitchen.
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