Imperial Classical Ballet stages Tchaikovsky's romantic ballet Swan Lake with a full live orchestra at the Scarborough Spa Grand Hall.
Imperial Classical Ballet bring Swan Lake to the Scarborough Spa on Saturday 31 October, playing the Grand Hall in South Bay. It's a full production of the romantic ballet, with Tchaikovsky's score performed by a live orchestra rather than a recording.
If you've never seen it, the story is a familiar one: Princess Odette is cursed to live as a swan by day and a woman by night, and Prince Siegfried vows to save her from the sorcerer Rothbart and his daughter Odile. It's a tale of love, betrayal and redemption that's stayed in the repertoire for over a century.
There's a bit of history behind the music, too. Tchaikovsky's score was commissioned in the spring of 1875 by Vladimir Begichev, a trustee of the Imperial Theatre in Moscow, while the composer was working on the opera Guardsmen. It was his second attempt at a ballet after his first had come to nothing, at a time when writing for the dance wasn't highly rated among young composers. The Moscow theatre offered him 800 roubles for it, a considerable sum at the time.
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Imperial Classical Ballet is a touring company that stages over 200 classical shows every year, including The Nutcracker, Giselle, Romeo & Juliet and Sleeping Beauty. They've played more than 1,250 performances across over 100 regional theatres, drawing more than 500,000 audiences across the UK. Swan Lake is one of the main titles they take on the road.
It's on Saturday 31 October at the Scarborough Spa, Grand Hall, South Bay. Doors open at 7:00pm and the show starts at 7:30pm.
