Swan Lake

Swan Lake

107 mins | Drama, Music | Dec. 26, 1966

Perhaps the most popular ballet video ever released, this version of Tchaikovsky's beloved work stars one of the most famous classical dance partnerships of all time, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. Nureyev choreographed this production for the Vienna State Opera Ballet. Two icons of 20th-century dance in magnificent form. Ballet authority John Lanchbery, former music director of the Sadler's Wells and Royal Ballet companies, as well as of American Ballet Theatre and Australian Ballet, conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's enchanting score.

Swan Lake

107 mins | Drama, Music | Dec. 26, 1966

Swan Lake
Perhaps the most popular ballet video ever released, this version of Tchaikovsky's beloved work stars one of the most famous classical dance partnerships of all time, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. Nureyev choreographed this production for the Vienna State Opera Ballet. Two icons of 20th-century dance in magnificent form. Ballet authority John Lanchbery, former music director of the Sadler's Wells and Royal Ballet companies, as well as of American Ballet Theatre and Australian Ballet, conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's enchanting score.
IMDb rating 8.3
Producers Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Seven Arts Productions, ORF, United Productions of America (UPA), Neue Thalia
Original title Schwanensee
Directors Truck Branss
Writers

Cast

Margot Fonteyn

as Odile / Odette

Rudolf Nureyev

as Prince Siegfried

John Lanchbery

as Conductor